daniel etter

Photography for me is much more about the stories you witness and communicate than about the image itself. I am still amazed where a camera can take you. I’ve been to Haiti and Afghanistan and moved to India, met some of the most interesting people ever and started working for clients I’ve always wanted to work for.

Above is selection from shattered Port au Prince, Maoist infested rural India, the uprise in Kashmir and the war in Afghanistan. It sounds bleak, but if this year has taught me something about the media’s representation of reality it is that reality is far too complex to adhere to the media’s needs. It is much easier to go for the cliché than for an actual representation of all the complexities of a story. This is why the image below is one of my favorites of this year.

Kids play soccer on a the yard of a destroyed school in Port au Prince, Haiti, Jan. 28, 2010.

I added a selection of writing samples to the site. All in German unfortunately. See here.

It doesn’t look much different, but this site is completely  new: layout, content and – most important – content management. The main reason behind it was that the last version was complicated to update which led to a lack of fresh content in the last months (years?). For this version I’m using WordPress and Slideshowpro for Lightroom.  Both work incredibly easy and fast, making updates a matter of seconds. So I hope there will be more updates in the future. Also there are some new features, like the ability to link directly to individual pages and full screen slideshows, which I missed.  Hope you like it. Enjoy.