Shadow

Still

Love is in the air

Vienna 2007

Reflections

Tallinn 2006

Playing

untitled

Vienna 2007

Dorn_Röschen

Perfect family...?

Vienna 2007

Empty

The Kiss
Gustav Klimt

The Kiss (original Der Kuss) was painted by Gustav Klimt, and is probably his most famous work. It depicts a couple shrouded in gold and symbols sharing a kiss against a bland background.

The man is standing, bending over to kiss the woman who is kneeling on a patch of flowers and seems to be accepting the kiss, rather than actively participating. The portion of gold covering the man is covered with mostly rectangular, black and white shapes, while the woman's portion seems to be dotted with bunches of flowers.

Various interpretations of The Kiss:

• That the common gold shrouding, and indeterminate background evokes the timelessness, and union of selves that a kiss can engender.
• That it represents how bright, beautiful, and golden everything is when you first kiss someone.
• That the man is lost in the kiss (faceless and unidentifiable) while the woman is turning her head away and is aloof from the kiss.
• That the female is succumbing to the male and experiencing a moment of sexual ecstasy.
• The woman appears to be rejecting the male rather than succumbing to him, as her face is turned away from him rather than to him.
• The overall shape of the two lovers beneath the blanket is in the shape of an erect penis.

Source

Confusion

Speed

In the light

With heart

canil_ Braga

Death by the predator

Belief

Cologne 2007

Remembering...

Concentration camp Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg_ 2007

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Sachsenhausen - Oranienburg

Location: Germany, 35 km from Berlin
Established: 1938
Liberation: April 22th, 1945, by a unit of the 47th Soviet Army.
Estimated number of victims: 30 - 35,000

In September 1939, thousands of communists, social-democrats and former trade union leaders were arrested in Germany. 5,000 of them were sent to Sachsenhausen, as well as 900 Jews. End of September 1939, there were 8,384 prisoners in the camp. In November 1939, this number increased dramatically to 11,311 prisoners. At this time, the first Typhus epidemic started. Because the SS refused to give any medical care and due to the incredible lack of food, hundreds of inmates died in the following weeks (...)

Like all other Nazi concentration camps, the conditions of life in Sachsenhausen were incredibly barbaric. There were daily executions by shooting or hanging (...)

The camp was liberated by a unit of the 47th Soviet Army on April 22th, 1945. The Soviet soldiers found only 3,000 survivors in the camp. This number included 1,400 women. Most of them were starving, ill and too weak to welcome their liberators. Like in several other camps, and despite of the medical cares they received, many inmates died in the days following the liberation.

Source

Portugal

Adopte e salve uma vida

www.abra.org.pt

Passing by

Praga 2003