the digital bathroom (preview)

It's not so long ago, 15 years (9th of January 2006 to be exact), but in my mind it feels like one of my other lives when I took those images in the beginning of my personal digital age.

That time I was still living in Basel, Switzerland. I used to work with my analog Hasselblad on film and I was not really fan of digital photography. Not at all. Friends already had Nikons, but I laughed at them because the quality of the little bit of pixels that came out of those cameras was not really convincing, to say it nice, and furthermore they took so long after you pressed the trigger until they finally shot the photo that I had the feeling you could go take a coffee between the moment when you wanted to shoot and the moment the camera finally was ready with focusing and calculating its secret electronic things.

Those cameras that delivered a bit a better quality (still far from what you get today in a mobile phone) had exorbitant prices and were maybe affordable for a state-owned studio, criminal police, or the research lab of a big company. For sure not for me and I must confess that only a few years before I asserted full of belief that digital will never make it to professional photographer studios.

Well, it's not the only thing I was completely wrong when it comes to predictions, but ok, I'm an artist, not a fortune teller, so I reclaim to have an excuse.

However in 2015 I bought my first digital camera, a Canon EOS 20D. It had 8 Megapixels (2336x3504 px) and a little zoom lens of plastic that was so light that I feared that it could fly away like a balloon. Used to the huge viewfinder of my Hasselblad, or at least the good and bright viewfinder of my analog Olympus OM cameras, I found the viewfinder of this camera microscopic and the fiddling with the plastic ring on the lens didn't rise my confidence in the new technology.

I bought photoshop 3.0 which was fun to play around on my "huge" 14" or 16" Eizo-CRT-Monitor (I don't remember which size exactly) on the freshly installed windows 95 that replaced Win 3.1 that run on the command-line system MS-DOS.

What you see in this series is from one of my very first digital sessions. This time I didn't re-edit the images, you see them as I originally made them.

With the preview of the next series I'll upload, I'll tell you a bit more about this photo session that actually opened my digital era...