They were the mopeds of the 60s and 70s. Zundapp, Kreidler, Puch, Tomos. As a 15-year-old, you dreamed of being allowed to ride a moped the following year when you turned 16. A reason to have your first job and save up for the purchase so you no longer had to cycle to school and would hopefully also rise in esteem with the girls you started to find increasingly interesting at that age. Of course, the choice of which brand depended not only on the amount you could spend whether or not helped by a contribution from your parents, money for your birthday or generous grandparents. What group did you belong to, soul music lover, pop music lover, or part of the alternative hippie community with a preference for what was then called underground. Born to be wild
You were allowed forty kilometres per hour but there was something to be done about that and a helmet was not yet compulsory. Hair in the wind and the girl on the buddy seat.
Now the mopeds are ridden by men who lovingly take care of them and tour them together, sitting on a terrace on the way, reminiscing about those days, humming the hits and talking about what was when they were young.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…