Norbert Krapf's poems inspired by Andreas Riedel

Andreas Riedel was born in 1970 in Neutstadt. a. d. Aisch, in Franconia. He was an apprentice in a photography studio 1987-1990, in 1994 he passed his examination as a master photographer, and since 1993 he has worked as a free-lance photographer in his own studio. In 1997 he received two Kodak European Portrait awards. The black and white photos that inspired Norbert Krapf's unpublished collection of poems, Faces and Fields I Once Knew, were originally published in Andreas Riedel's Die sedd'n un' die selln (1997). He collaborated with Franconian dialect poet Helmut Haberkamm in Lichd ab vom Schuss and Des sichd eich gleich. For further information and samples of his work, see www.fotografie-riedel.de.

Poems by Norbert Krapf

THREE SATURDAY SWEEPERS | THE WOMAN IN THE BARLEY | MARGARETHE'S EYES | ZWETSCHGENKUCHEN / PLUM PASTRY | THE FARMER AND THE MANURE THE VILLAGE GUARDS | BLACK CAT BLUES | GOING TO CHURCH