photography about an arcbishop in his car. Das Kölner Heil
rituals of election campaigns, photographic portraiture of chancellor Helmut Kohl
Cycle

Power and Ritual

For more than 20 years Bernd Arnold has been exploring the demonstration of power and rituals at public events.

He started his research about behavioural attitudes in different contexts of society photograph of chancellor Gerhard Schröderwith a documentation of catholic ceremonies in Cologne (compiled in the book "Das Kölner Heil"). Following topics were the politicians´ strategies of a medium-effective self-production during the German election campaign update (compiled in the book "Wahl Kampf Ritual") and the world economic summits. Further on he examined the defining rituals of demimonde and nightlife as well as the production of television sceneries bringing up the question: Is our world a telly?

Photograph and portraiture of German chancellor Angela MerkelNight on Demimonde Eroscenter PaschaPhoto Essay of studios and television - RTL News with Peter Klöppel  and Ulrike von der GröbenEconomic Summits in Brussel - Photographer and photojournalist rests
Cycle

Black East Wild West

Dark mass, bizarre situations, shadowy portraits and questionable details vary between the real and the fictional. In Western Europe the interfaces (entrance/exit) between the secular and the sacral were in former centuries the portals of the cathedrals. Nowadays, the interface are more in shopping streets and mass events where human fates are in search of salvation. The growing globalization of the last decades promises more independency and individualisShopping Streets in Germany - the Zonem. But is this really true? Are the dependency and synchronization of each other are really less than before?

The Zone - shopping streets | The Portal - the interface between the secular and the sacral | Black East - scenes of decay | Mimesis - a deceptive game


Zone Cologne shopping streetZone Shopping street CologneBlack East - Scenes of decay in East Germany - StralsundBlack East - Street Scene Streetphotographyphotographs about the West Portals of the Cologne cathedral - entrance with hairdressing womanMimesis - Cologne Carnival and Metro station - Photoessayphotography about the West Portals of Cologne cathedraltwo men walked in to the Cologne cathedral at the West Portals - Photography and Portfolio
series

Insights and Incidents

Boxing on Parish Fair | Schlagerfans | Ethnic Germans | Hospice | Buedchen | Student leagues | School of Diplomats | Migrants in Germany | Drewermann Fans | Ghostcity | Homeworkers | Photorepotage - Senior Socialist at Election Campaign in Germany University of Sports | Climate | Menschensinfonieorchester | German Election Campaign 2005 | World Youth Day | Socialist Election Campaign | World Soccer Championchip 2006 | An ordinary day in Germany | Pope Benedict XVI in Munich | Erdogan | Christopher Street Day

Cologne cathedral building lodge stained glass designer with a featherMigrant from Siberia to GermanyMigrants from Siberia to GermanyOld Socialist during the Election CampaignA ordinary day in Germany with Oskar LafontaineA ordinary day in Germany
Benedikt Taschen Portrait of the publisherBenedikt Taschen PortraitPortrait Gregory Waldispublisher Ralf Daab PortraitArtist Stephen Prina during Kunstfilmbiennale in CologneUrsula Strauss - Austrian actressPortrait Moby musicianJan BöhmermannLeo Fischer Titanic
Emotion anger Franz van der GrintenUrsula Strauss actress

Portraiture and Series

André Rieu | Ursula Strauss | Manager | Peter Bernstein | Sheila Arnold | Katrin Bauerfeind | Jim Beard | Moby | Tyler Brule | Ralf Daab | Luigi Colani | Peter Schiergen | Lina Wertmüller | Mercedes Sosa | Reinhold Messner | Van der Grinten | Alice Schwarzer | Laszlo Kish | Frank Wingold | Jan Böhmermann | Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski | Anger | Christiane von Poelnitz | Jonathan Meese | Manfred Schneider | Vitor Caldeira | Storm Thorgerson | Alfred Neven DuMont | Klaus Theweleit | Benedikt Taschen | and many others...

Portfolio and Overview

woman cashier in canteenSheila Arnold Pianistin PortraitAnja Ehrenberg dancerPortrait of Katrin BauerfeindJan Böhmermann PortraiturePortraiture of Kenneth RogoffMorgue Franz van der Grintenportrait of Frank Wingold with jazz guitar
Rhein romantic rhine river with wineBudapestBudapestromantic rhine river romantic in Boppard and an old man smoking a cigaretteTokyo bag
Cologne Airport - woman with bag
Cycle

Light Places Dark Cities

Prague by night

Istanbul | Verona | Atlanta | Cologne | Budapest | Prague | Edinburgh | Tokyo | Berlin | Luxembourg | Budapest | Rhine river - Warum ist es am Rhein so schön?

Istanbul Beyoglu IstiklalBudapest BathesTokyo Ginzahaidresser Istanbul BeyogluAtlanta Skyline Downtown

Digitalis

In the DIGITALIS cycle, the play with reality and the image of a memory casually marks the transition from analog to digital photography.
In various series since 1985, the fragments of authenticity within photography are slowly and inexorably dissolved with technical developments.

Love tale (last chapter) | agog | Morguemorph | agog+zapp | Neulich am Rande der Straße | The Anatom New! | Via Crucis - World Youth Day Cologne | Mystic Tales | Maiwald election campaigns

Morguemorph Digitalis - digital illustrationelection campaigns 1984election campaigns chapter 1985Maiwald Digitalis - digital illustrationDog and Moon an alternate streetphotography