mkoAbout
“Every person has its own language. Language is the expression of the spirit.”
Jeder Mensch hat seine eigene Sprache. Sprache ist Ausdruck des Geistes.
Likewise, each human being observes the phenomena of the real world with his own eyes. Hence a photographer is merely able to create an effigy of the reality he realizes himself. He can never enforce his claims to copy reality itself.
On the contrary, an observer can anytime construe the opus of a photographer (the photography) with and through his perception of reality. Exactly this diversity of observations is my attraction to photography in general and establishes infinite possibilities for me.
Marc Koschel, April 5, 2003
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
“Beauty is the summation of parts working together in such a way that nothing needs to be added, taken away, or altered!”
Why photography?
Marc Koschel took his first picture at the age of eight years from the backseat of his mother's car. She had left her compact camera there and Marc took a picture of her puzzled face while she was still driving. He obtained his first own compact camera two years later.
Marc desired a SLR camera for his eighteenth birthday. He received a Minolta X 700 and took his first ambitious attempts as a hobby photographer. In 1995 Marc purchased a Minolta Xi 7. In the meantime he discovered his interest in portrait and scenery photography.
Since 1999 Marc takes digital photos. First he used a Olympus CL2500 next to his old Minolta Xi 7 camera. Since the year 2006 he has been taken his pictures exclusively with his Canon EOS 30D. His interests has focused on banal everyday life subjects next to scenery shots.
From 2019 on he got seriously involved in iPhone photography. It started with the iPhone 7 and goes on with the iPhone XS and iPhone 13 Pro Max. However, so far he uses his DSLR still parallel to the iPhone.
Who is Marc?
Marc Koschel was born in 1966 and lives in the greater Mannheim / Heidelberg area (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis).
He studied German and English/American philology with a focus on linguistics as well as general linguistics at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He also studied German in the Germanic and Slavic Department at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). In the year of 1999 he received his Master of Arts.
Marc has worked in the health care IT sector since the year 2000.
During his free time Marc has developed webpages for his personal surrounding since the middle of the 90s, either for his own projects or for friends or acquaintances. In his point of view the combination of photography and web design is well compatible.
How to get in contact?
You can reach Marc on his personal website marc-koschel.de.
License
All photographs and other media on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
You are free to share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format — under the following terms:
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- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
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One more thing …
This web page is written in English though I am German. Why? I want to reach as many people as possible.