Airport reloaded
In January 2017, I planned and implemented an interesting experiment. The starting point was the question of what it would feel like to photograph for 24 hours straight at an exciting location, using only one camera and a fixed focal length. Thanks to friendly relationships, I was able to realize this project at Zurich Airport. My tool of choice was the Leica SL and the SL Summicron 1.4/50 mm, which remains one of my favorite lenses to this day. The Leica SL, with its 24 megapixels, has since been replaced by the SL2 with 47 megapixels. But the reduce-to-the-max operating concept, the outstanding image quality, and the robustness of the camera have remained. The temperature dropped to -10° Celsius overnight. The Leica SL performed flawlessly even under these challenging conditions.
It was also interesting for me to revisit the images I took back then. With some distance, you judge things differently. I removed some photos that made it to my favorites back then. Instead, I added a few new ones. So, it's definitely worth revisiting the photos from a project after a few months or even years. I also made some small adjustments to the brightness and contrast. You can see the results of this new image selection below.
And below the photo gallery, I've attached the making-of film, which my then assistant Lea made. A huge thank you again to her, as well as to Rémy Brunner, Rolf Wallner, Masis Sarkisian, and other people at Zurich Airport. Without them, this report wouldn't have been possible.
Image gallery
Making-of Film
