| Sri Lanka’s Smile – Photographer Knut Stritzke toured through Sri Lanka in 2007, having a camera always at his fingertips. Supported by Sri Lanka’s ambassador and the Grassi Museum of Leipzig, Germany, a traveling exhibition has now been launched. The exhibition “Sri Lanka’s Smile” shows a series of portraits and landscape impressions, memories of Sri Lanka, a wonder of Asia.
According to himself, Sri Lanka has been an incredibly intense experience for Knut Stritzke. For him Sri Lanka was a land of ease, in which he has traveled openly and impartially. He wanted to photograph country and people without prejudice, to bring out the essence of the individual as well as the beauty of nature. He met people who were firmly rooted with both feet on the ground. He wanted to photographically capture any aspects of life, that can be read from those peoples’ eyes and attitudes. The truth is found in the moment. The present contains all, what is essential. You just need to understand, how to read these tracks. Then they will also reveal something about the past and the future. |
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| The photographic recordings have been made on analog color film using a Hasselblad camera. Besides the high quality of the resulting images, this “slow” system allows to get closer to the portrayed people. In order to digitize the limited tonal range of this material best possible, a Nikon Coolscan 9000ED has been used together with SilverFast scanner software.
Knut Stritzke: « Even after all this years, Nikon film scanners are still my first choice, when I am scanning analog image material. I am glad to have found SilverFast, which features far more functionality than Nikon-Scan. For my exhibitions I need the highest quality, which SilverFast provides me! » Visit the exhibition Sri Lanka’s Smile from May, 24th to August, 24th 2014 in the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany. Come and view Stritzke’s unique images. Knut Stritzke’s website can be found here. |
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