By Liz Puranum
In the age of the digital camera and a saturation of photos how do you take one that stands out?
Well, you have to be sensitive, according to Birgit Krippner.
The photographer is exhibiting works of her two homes – New York and New Zealand – in Wellington.
Pulp Fiction, punk rock and poetry are just some of Krippner's inspirations for her exhibition ‘Street romance’.
One of the photos taken from the infamous diner scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction; granted the diner is in Los Angeles, but Krippner says that counts as it's on the way from New York to New Zealand.
The exhibition is a collection of works from those two places, which are Krippner's two homes.
The focus is on streets.
“To head out on to the street and try and do this, it's not easy,” says James Gilberd of Photospace Gallery.
“Your camera and your eye and your mind and your sensitivity to humanity, they all have to be one and continuous.”
Krippner used to be a drummer in New York punk rock outfit Full Tank, so you may be surprised to hear her secret to taking a great photo.
“I'm quite a sensitive person, and I think sometimes I sense things which maybe not everyone senses, and that's the moment I like to capture,” she says.
Those captured moments are Krippner's reward for often spending hours in one spot waiting for the right shot.
The makers of Krippner's signature camera were so impressed with her work they have invited her to exhibit at the Leica Gallery in Paris in September, but before that, the Street Romance exhibition opens at Wellington's Photospace Gallery tomorrow.
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