To tell the truth, this blog post is pure work avoidance. I have been doing some last minute media promotion for my forthcoming photography exhibition all day and felt that the impact that I was making was less than adequate. I have a strange relationship with journalists and other media people: I do not know how to get them excited and they immediately spot my shortcomings in this area and ignore me. As I was beginning to feel increasingly unloved, I turned my attention to something more rewarding, a portrait of two cows.

If you are a media or advertising student, call me – there’s a work experience job waiting for you.

I met this group of lovely girls on a recent walk at Overton Hill near Avebury under a beautifully expressive sky. Met? Yes, met, it is one of my unplanned portraits. As I was walking away, I could swear that I heard the cow on the right saying to her darker-skinned friend “look at you, you are really playing up to the camera. You should be a model.”

The portrait of Isabelle is another addition to my ongoing series of unplanned portraits.

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Each calendar is signed by hand by the artist, emphasizing that this photography calendar is not mass produced. It is only available at selected galleries and from Wolf Kettler Photographer directly.

The calendar is printed on high quality paper and features 13 delightful feline friends from Britain and France. It measures approx. 42×30 cm and comes with wire binding for instant wall hanging.

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Max Cornelius started kart racing early and this is his first season in the Autosport Young Guns championship. At only sixteen years old, he already won the first race of the season, a total of five out of nine races and scored a third. And the season is not over yet.

When the photo session was arranged with my clients (the people, who manage Max Cornelius), I had been under the impression that we would have the circuit to ourselves. In my mind, I was already doing a few laps in my own car and thanked fate for the perks of being a photographer.

Then fate said “not so fast” and I realised that it was open track day at Castle Combe, which meant that we drew a crowd as the photo shoot got underway and that a bunch of middle-aged men were beating their adapted Ferraris round the circuit, three laps at a time.

We had a really good shoot, except that I managed to insult the man, who builds the cars that are used in the Autosport Young Guns series with my remark “there is nothing to this car, just an engine and four wheels”. I meant it as a compliment, he took it for rudeness.

I have no doubt that Max Cornelius will go far. Is he a future Formula One champion in the making?

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Framed and unframed prints as well as two different 2011 photography wall calendars will be on sale at the gallery.

About the photographer and the exhibition

Wolf Kettler photographs people. He creates bespoke portraiture for private, business and editorial clients.

Wolf’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. He has been interviewed, among others, by BBC Radio and the British Journal of Photography. Wolf was a panellist on “The Story of Eros”. His client list includes patrons from three continents.

Wolf Kettler is proud to use PermaJet fine photographic papers

In his photographs of people, Wolf wants to deconstruct glamour and artificiality by exposing the natural beauty that comes from within. He rejects the type of photography, which relies on stale setups and cheesy poses and which creates glamorised faces retouched beyond recognition.

Wolf applies the same principles to his personal and commissioned work, thus blurring the borders between art and commerce and merging his activities into one “gesamt”-performance.

The exhibition at the Sashay Gallery at The Healthy Life Company features photographs from the cycle “Look, Touch” and recent personal and commissioned work by Wolf Kettler.

“Look, Touch” confronts the human body with natural or human-made surfaces and investigates (gender) stereotypes, such as “female = round = soft”, etc.

Recent work includes landscape and nature photographs along with three images from the “Big Skies” series and examples of recent commissioned portraiture work.

The Healthy Life Company in the historic centre of Devizes is the town’s premier health food shop. The Sashay Gallery was opened in May 2010.

Sashay Gallery at The Healthy Life Company
4 Little Brittox, Devizes SN10 1AR – Admission free
3rd September – 24th September 2010

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I feel inspired by faces in the crowd but walking up to a complete stranger and asking whether I may photograph them feels awkward. Then there are the strangers, who, through random acts of communication, cease to be strangers and become people that I have met.

This is how the portrait of Herwig in his fine food shop in Steyr, Austria, came into existence. Following on from my portraits of a watchmaker, this is another example of unplanned photography, which I created using only available light.

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