I am Carsten Burmeister … photographer, writer, dreamer.
This is what I do: I read, watch & listen … then think … then write.
I like to think things through thoroughly and with my book en.light.en.ment I wish to inspire readers to think about things as they never thought about them before.
My book is a panharmonicon of more than 350 essays – about words and numbers, life and death, spirituality and philosophy, truth and truthiness, war and peace and Zen.
My quest as an artist is to document my environment.
I walk … I look … I shoot … go to my tumblr page
Do I have kids? You bet I do! Check out my boys Rad & Yani, and their Unity Gym …
… and Saskia, she has a Wikipedia page and a website.
Photography at its finest
This self-taught photographer shows pro-photographers a thing or two …
Writing bio
Use this link to my Dear Reviewer page.
en.light.en.ment … a new beginning, in the making since 1987
In 1987 I set off on a spiritual journey. The insights gained culminated in a ‘panharmonicon’ of 150 pages of essays about words and numbers; life and death; spirituality and philosophy; war and peace; reality, truth, truthiness, consciousness, delusion, God, service, happiness, love, duty, meditation, mind, passion, religion, Zen & enlightenment … that sort of thing.
Photography bio
I had a studio in Cremorne, Sydney until I retired in 2015 and moved to Balmoral.
I have been a pro photographer in the Sydney graphic arts scene since 1979. Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1947. After my professional education during the late 1960s I spent two years in Amsterdam, Holland, and much of that time in the Rijksmuseum, studying the paintings of Dutch and Flemish masters.
It is there I got the inspiration for my style of photography – light is used to maximum effect, composition is all-important and attention to detail reigns.
With the arrival of digital photography and Photoshop, I had tools to finish my pictures to my liking and thus fulfil my vision of evocative PHOTOART.
My last stop in Europe was Copenhagen – then I travelled to Asia and settled in Australia.
My background is still life photography, but I deem myself an urban photographer for my personal work; most pictures in my PHOTOART are street shots from Sydney – I just roam the city, incessantly shooting with my Canon EOS 1Ds camera. Then I manipulate the pictures on my Apple MacBook with Adobe PhotoShop. I abandoned film in early 1998 and have been a digital photographer ever since, both for my PHOTOART work and professionally.
As an ad shooter – for 45 years – I was always in control, but also constrained. Now the chains are off. When I shoot my PHOTOART I’m free.
I take chances; I love that process: Not to have to worry about the outcome while I shoot … whereas in my pro career the concept, the layout were all that counted.