Once More The River Will Flow

Finally, I got the chance on working together with my dear close friend Andrea Serrano of vintage clothing store Kimandra. She was able to recently acquire a big collection of vintage clothing from the 70s to late 90s in extraordinary quality from various brands such as Céline, Fendi, Gucci as well as small manufacturers only working with the best fabrics possible. It was the perfect moment to get together and shoot an editorial with another mutual friend of ours, Sara Gasser, to show some of those garments. A small crop of the whole collection will go online at Kimandra available for purchase in a few days along the lookbook pictures and prices. There will be also a special sale in Zurich on April 21/22. For more of my photos, check out my new portfolio website.

Hello, Canon EOS M!

I was given a Canon EOS M recently and I have carried it around my neck everywhere I went for the past couple weeks. I totally felt like an Asian tourist visiting Europe for the first time. The Canon EOS M is fairly new and it combines the big sensor, image quality and interchangeable lens system of a DSLR with the size of a small compact camera. The result is a perfect everyday camera that you will bring everywhere you go. I would love to bring my Canon EOS 5D with me but it is simply too bulky and heavy for that, so I was happy when I heard about the EOS M. Combined with the 22mm lens (equivalent to 35mm full frame) it is a really compact combo and gives me the same field of view as my Yashica T4. You have to see the camera in person to see how small it actually is. There is also an adapter that allows me to use my Canon EF lenses with the EOS M. If you read reviews about the EOS M on the internet, you will see that a lot of people are complaining about the slow autofocus. I personally think the autofocus is fast enough (obviously depends on your photography style) but it's true that you probably can't capture any fast moving object. The handling is pretty straight forward and easy with people in mind wanting to upgrade from a compact camera but there are all the manual mode and settings too you know from your DSLR to appeal to professionals as well. The touchscreen works like a charm much to my surprise. I will let the pictures below speak for themselves and keep an eye on my photo blog too as I will publish more photos there over the next couple days.

Bits And Bobs #73

Sweater by A.P.C., Jeans & Hat by Acne, Jacket by A.P.C. x Carhartt

At long last I made a new outfit entry. A lot of things have happened since my previous outfit entry and I don't know where to begin. First and foremost I finally got my own studio, where I can work and take photographs in front of the plain white wall or any background I want to put up. It will help me take outfit entries more often and quicker as I am in the studio almost every day and I don't have to deal with daylight and weather anymore. The few of you who are following me on Instagram have seen that I have been given a Canon EOS M. I started putting my first shots on my Visual Diary and I also took both these pictures with my new little camera and the included external flash. I am really impressed by the image quality and the compact size but more on that later as I will dedicate my next blog entry to the EOS M and the pictures I have taken so far with it. This was my outfit today. The temperature dropped below 0°C and this jacket is keeping me very warm. I paired the outfit with the shoes below.

Shoes by Our Legacy

Change Of View / Zurich

I was asked by Bettery Magazine to participate in an article series called Change Of View. It is a photo documentary series, that compares the city through the lens of a local and foreign photographer. This time it was Zurich's turn and I was the local photographer. I answered questions like what makes me happy or what I would do better in Zurich and took photos to visualise them. You find the full article here.

Instagram #2

Haggerston Park / Homemade Larb / Damien Hirst / Flowers at Geffrye Museum / Upstairs at Ten Bells / Self-portrait / Paris / Pierre Sang / Paris / Train

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Instagram

While the postings on this blog have somewhat (unintentionally) become a rare thing, I am not completely inactive when it comes to sharing stuff on the internet. I joined Instagram a couple of weeks ago and have been posting photos basically every day. You can follow me by searching my username 'pascalgrob' but I am also sharing most Instagram photos via Twitter for the ones without access to the app. Below is a collection of some of my Instagram photos so far. You can see that I developed a huge interest in food and have been visiting many great restaurants but I also try to make nice stuff at home myself.

Vogue Salon Zurich

The past two weeks were terribly busy and they didn't really leave me any time nor energy to update my blog. I want to share with you some backstage photos I took last Friday at the Vogue Salon (during Fashion Days Zurich). I was actually planning to continue with a new outfit entry, but that might have to wait a few more days. See some more backstage photos on my Visual Diary.

Visual Diary Update #8

Well I didn't exactly update my Visual Diary but I created this little website as sort of overview of my recent photographs. I wouldn't call it a portfolio yet but maybe that's what it is after all. Have a look here.