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DANIEL SANNWALD

DANIEL SANNWALD

Born in Germany in 1979, Daniel Sannwald is emerging as one of the true original voices in contemporary photography. In a landscape dominated by referential and repetitive imagery, Daniel is establishing a strong and recognizable signature that is already catching the attention of some of the most influential trendsetters in the fashion and photography industries. His surrealistic and hauntingly beautiful images speak of a world were Fashion and Art meet to reveal a unique narrative.
Daniel studied at the Royal Academy in Antwerp and is now based in London.
Daniel contributes to numerous magazines. Amongst them: Dazed & Confused, i-D, Vogue Hommes Japan, V magazine and Qvest. His work has been honoured with a nomination by the Photomuseum Winterhur in Switzerland, and a Lead Award nomination in Germany. He has photographed projects for Louis Vuitton, Nike, Adidas, Replay, Wrangler and Shiseido.
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old and young

this week i had a “young” and “old” week and its very nice to have a “young” and “old” week… i tell you.

old

this week we set the dates for the christmas party for the lonely elderly.
with a big bus we will pick all the elderlies and take them to a magical place :-)
i am very excited – i will wear my bow tie! of course.

young

this week i was part of a child trust charity in mayfair.

the same day i was dreaming about my children-book and about that next year it will go to print.
how nice it would be to read your own story to kids.! it must feel magical.

young + old dream about the same:

a feeling of “home”.

there is so many things, places and people which makes us feel “home” – but sometimes they are hard to see, feel or to find. sometimes they seem to just not be there… but then this feeling can be found anywhere…! we must just look inside of us.

radio waves

talking with the moon!

sanny————–hello—hello————moon

4 more days!

Your book “Pluto and Charon” explains what keeps the stars apart. Can you explain that briefly?

The system of Pluto and Charon is unusual among planetary systems in that each is tidally locked to the other: Charon always presents the same face to Pluto, and Pluto always presents the same face to Charon. A wonderful image of love. Love is one of the only forces which manages to keep the stars apart and this is so beautifully described in the poem by EE Cummings “I carry your heart”.
My book plays with the concept of the two planets and talks about the strongest force, “love”.
“Pluto and Charon” is a love letter to what will “come” and to what has “been”.

dark matters

A Dark Universe

One way to define Humankind could be to describe the whole knowledge it possesses. In this view, every kind of knowledge is equally important, regardless of the paradigm that creates it. We may picture this collective knowledge as a cloud of concepts that self-generates, condensing the surrounding void into new knowledge.

An example of this is dark matter, a concept that exemplifies, almost literally, how knowledge grows by filling voids…

Excerpt from ” A Dark Universe” by Christian Stephan-Otto

(“Pluto and Charon” / Daniel Sannwald / 2010 )

on a mission

mission:

i want to be the first fashion photographer who also has a career as a kick-boxer.!

i am trained by sensei dwyer in south bank.

so far:
my personal power moves are following:

Goal:

kick some ass!

dreaming

this saturday morning every thing started like always:

after i woke up, as usually i ate my müsli with soya milk and one banana…

what i did not knew was that at that exactly moment my friend Ana Montiel woke up from a dream that Owen Pallett was my boyfriend.

(painting by my friend james trimmer)

what ana did not knew was that at that exact moment i watched my müsli floating in the milk… and dreaming about Nelly being my boyfriend.

what i did not expected was that dreaming about nelly would be just the start of a wonderful weekend…

what i did not expected was that dreaming about nelly would be just the start of a wonderful weekend…

sam

my friend sam winston is having his first solo show since years in London. he will display new works in Kaleid Editions / Unit 2 / 23-25 Redchurch Street / E2 7DJ / London
wed – sun 11am to 7pm

1st dec – 22 dec!

you should come by because… he and his works are both really nice!

click here for the website of sam!

Pluto and Charon

yesterday i went to belgium to be at the printing house and next to the machines when they started printing my book.

i cant really explain how nice the feeling was inside of me when the first pages of my book came out of these huge printing machines…

its a really nice feeling of proudness.

10 more days… then “Pluto and Charon” will be ready!

it will become a nice book…

you will see

:-)

happy colour messenger

i cant tell you how fast my heart is beating today… its like a real firework inside of me again. its wonderfully intense this feeling!

i am getting ready now to leave to belgium. in my hands the last color corrections for my book “Pluto and Charon”.
Tomorrow morning at 8 o´clock i will stand next to the printers ….
because tomorrow is the day that “Pluto and Charon” will go to final print.

zoo

a few of the many animals living in the inbox of my e-mail account.

then and now

then

when my dear friend corinna and i been seventeen we went together for our first holiday to london
i remember that we been reading dazed and confused and
dreaming about a life in london …

now

now we are here and
lately we have a lovely sunday ritual which includes late night cakes and long talks about the NOW´s and THEN´s in wonderful hidden places.
i cant explain you how much i value to spend time with corinna and our friendship over the years…
she is one of the persons who makes me feel “home”…

Yesterday i said to corinna:
Dont you think its funny… if you think about our first journey to london and about now and all.!?

the world is big but small on my plate #1

after talking with rokas about saltibarsciai and other lithuanian food… i thought it would be nice to not always travel so much around the world but to bring the world from time to time to my plate. so today sunday i thought it would be a nice day to invite lithuania on my plate.

so i made some saltibarsciai ( cold beetroot soup) with hot potatoes
and thyme tee.

and
its a nice feeling to have my tummy filled with lithuania.

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