Me and My Plush Cat Watching The Fireworks

• Photographer
  Adrian Schaub
• Technical Info
  Hasselblad X2d Xcd 651 F 4.5 1/125 Sec Iso 3200
• Photo Date
  1.8.2023

The picture was taken at the festivities around the Swiss National Holiday. The little girl sitting on the shoulders of his daddy was at the same time excited and afraid of the fireworks and seemed to have been to have taken her plush along with her for providing comfort (and for showing her the fireworks as well).

The overarching theme of my photography is the children’s game “I see something you don’t see”, as I try to capture the special in the everyday. I like regular shapes and structures of any kind. I further have a weakness for the ephemeral as well as for animals and plants. In my street photography people are interchangeable anonymous actors, hence you typically don’t recognise their faces. Animals are part of the city life and their irregular activity contrasts with the regular forms of streets and buildings, whose leading lines ideally aim for a corner of the picture.