ENTRY DESCRIPTION
There are many simple reasons why I created this series the way I did. I passed many beautiful landscapes on my 4400km bicycle trip from Berlin to Marseille. Often I would have loved to have a person to photograph in these surroundings, but I was just by myself. Thats why i decided to shoot a self portrait series.
However, photographing myself in cycling clothing felt like just documenting the trip. I decided to not wear clothes at all. In several places it felt weird to be naked. but I recognized that overcoming this feeling of weirdness was kind of a freeing process. I asked myself why it felt strange. I am alone in nature and with a childish view, without any awareness of society structures, without a sexualized view of nudity it would be the most normal thing in the world.
When I selected the images at the end of the trip,I doubted if the series could just look like a strange nudist showing pictures of himself being naked. The anxiety of the question: Why have I done this? Is it overreading? Is it something personal, or can people identify with it?
But at the end, I thought that exactly that fear of being judged could be the point of this series.
I think so much about how all the others could see me and barely allow myself to see who I am.
That`s why i decided to not give a fuck!
This could be me, and I don`t care.

AUTHOR
When David first started with photography he captured what is important to him and he remains faithful to these values. His work is characterized and shaped by his own way of looking at things.
An appreciation and tribute to the complexity that is found in so much diversity.
He is fascinated by different cultures, living situations and our society as it is today.
Always close to his subject, the human figure and form. At the same time he holds a certain distance, in order to create space for interpretation between the viewer and his work.
He is not interested in finding solutions or seeking for answers, he desires to ask questions where the question itself might be answer enough.
without being cautionary or judgmental he has the courage to approach things and inspires to query. The purpose of his work is to create a intricate relationship, where the viewer himself needs to find out what role he plays in it.

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