Americana photography

"I wanted to see what was unexpected and try to make photographs of the disappearing, fragmentary moments of everyday life."

Along came a Spyder, picked up a rider, took him down the road to eternity.

In Local London, the photographer turns his lens on the capital’s independent restaurant scene, providing a tantalising reminder of the joy of eating out.

1958 Karlheinz Weinberger- Born in Zurich in 1921, he lived for his whole life in the apartment he grew up in, and worked for more than 30 years as a clerk for the local Siemens-Albis factory. And yet, in his personal work the self-taught photographer let his vision flourish, creating an impressive body of portraits capturing Switzerland’s most under-represented and sartorially striking counterculture.

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1979