The Kooks' new video

Yesterday the british band The Kooks released the video for their new song "Around Town".

 It's nothing like a typical music video but more like a short movie actually. The director is Ryan Hope who also directed videos for Bombay Bicycle Club, London Grammar and many others before.

 At first you get the explicit content warning and let this said, they don't show that for nothing! It's packed with thrilling pictures full of violence and sex whilst the kooks' fulminant song is playing in the back. But better watch it now yourself :

Haus der Photographie Hamburg

This week I was in Hamburg and went to the Deichtorhallen. There are two buildings, one for modern art in general and the other one only for photography. I was looking forward to seeing both of them but unfortunately the one for modern art is getting renewed until winter.

The current exhibition at Haus der Photographie is showing the work of the couple Ute and Werner Mahler. Their photos show various subjects including scenes of DDR as well as nature.

My personal highlight is the series "Mona Lisen der Vorstädte" (Mona Lisas of the suburbs) by both of them. They travelled through Europe with a large format camera and told girls to pose like they had Mona Lisa in mind, as students of Ute Mahler told me. This is why the position of some girls' hands look so odd.
I got interviewed about the exhibiton by these students too and had a chat with them about analogue photography later on which was vera nice!

The museum also got a great shop for photography books. If you're in Hamburg you should definitely visit the exhibition (you still got time until the 29.6.) and see the great architecture of the Deichtorhallen!

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