Loui's Photography

Amanda Wallace at the Rockwood Music Festival

The End of the Con-Circuit

I should probably talk about how I no longer go to Conventions (plus Rockwood), and why, and how that is probably the main reason I have moved on from wanting to be a con-photographer.

Basically, y’all know I loved it to bits. I still do. I love the community, the travel, the hotels, the heat, the entire atmosphere at conventions, not to mention how I took my best photos there! Especially the…

Today, the first day of 2020, a fire broke out in the Zoo of Krefeld, shortly after midnight, because of a lantern the wind carried there.

It burned down the Monkey house, killing several monkeys, apes, birds, and bats. Two Chimpanzees could be saved, and a Gorilla family of 7 in the neighbouring Gorilla House could be saved.

It was the first news I read this year, and it broke my heart. I can…

There's something the photography community needs to talk about: the way we go about the documentation of tribes.

There’s something the photography community—and especially big magazines and editors—need to talk about: the way we go about the documentation of tribes.

I want to put ahead here, that I am writing this piece as a white German, and it’s just my perspective at this point in time, my opinion here isn’t worth half as much as that of black people/People of colour, especially those who are more…

Blogged: The internet burned me out

I’ve known for a while now that I won’t come back in the sense I thought. I kept thinking for far too long, maybe one day I will put in the work to really make these accounts work.

But the truth is, I don’t want to and I don’t need to. Because I am not looking for that sort of success. It’s become overly clear to me around New Year’s, and I’ve suspected it for quite some time before. I don’t…