Jan eric Euler

Born 1989 in Giessen, a small town somewhere in the middle of Germany, Jan grew up in an even smaller village and found his way via some detours to Berlin, where he lives and works now as a photo artist.
His huge interest in the unknown fueled the fire of his motivation to capture and create the world around him in any possible way. He discovered the world of visual expression, constantly learning and adding old as well as modern techniques to his repertoire. For the last years he has been focusing very much on photography, a hobby he picked up when he was around 16. Handling cameras, experimenting with analogue as well as digital ways to capture light quickly became a passion and with that a central point of his life.
Beeing fascinated by the little moments of honesty, spontaneity and confidence, by the way light behaves and what it changes inside us, by braving gravity and by the sheer feeling of beeing alive - Jan captures what he finds around himself.
Mostly shooting youth and BMX lifestyle and culture in a documentary way as well as portraits, his main sources of inspiration are music, friends, his melancholic mind, the sun and travel. While his ongoing lifestyle projects stand in the tradition of spontaneous and emotional 35mm documentary photography, in his newer ventures into portrait and landscape photography he uses a variety of alternative processes including the Wet Plate Collodion Process, dating back to 1851. Combining the slow, time consuming old fashioned technique with a young mind, a lot of energy and a rather modern approach, Jan consistently sets out for new challenging proposals using self built or restored antique large format cameras to produce very special one of a kind images.
As one of a very few Jan also teaches the Wet Plate Collodion Process in arranged workshops around Berlin.
His photographs have been published in several online zines as well as a few print magazines and books ranging from BMX over fashion to photography subjects. (Photo: Osman Balkan)