Starting point
Alpstein began as a holiday: a hiking trip through the Alpstein massif in eastern Switzerland. I wanted to hold on to the trip itself, and to try photography in a kind of landscape I'd never shot before.
Idea & approach
I worked with four themes that later became the chapters of my PULS magazine: Focus, Colour, Movement and Light. They gave a loose structure to an open experiment, trying different directions rather than settling on one style.
Process
One day a storm caught us at the summit, and we had to descend right through it. Holding the camera steady was hard, but the storm made the best images of the trip: the cloud swallowed everything behind us and left pure white, as if shot in a studio, though we were high up in the mountains.
Result & learning
Some of my favourite photographs came out of the worst conditions. The mountains taught me to keep shooting when things don't go to plan, because the moment you'd never plan for is often the one worth having.
