The actor prepares for his roles meticulously he researches and reads a loss and to put tray the Famous Artist he started to paint himself its part of the deal its part of the you know its this is my only abbott says to change i change all the time and its fun because the way you do it there is always a good a good aspect to it you know to play gauguin learn how to paint this is the life of an actor you go from one world to the other and you get very specific about certain things for a short amount of time and then. You just. Jumped from the train and there came out of one. Painted in the middle to the development of modern art the film which covers this period of the artists life is now in cinemas. But how do you react when youre confronted with a picture of a human face you name need never thought of it before but the context in which you see that face will have a great effect on how you perceive and even maybe accept it and this is just one example of how our visual perception can be manipulated and thats one of many that german photographer thomas hoff has delighted in exploring well now the descent of artist is the subject of a major retrospective in london. Thomas offs breakthrough came with first as a fellow Art School Students displayed like a list celebrities that up and it come in notions of the portrait. Back in one thousand nine hundred eight these work sparked an uproar. Responded angrily to my portraits because i provided no information on these people names no vocations no info on who theyre married to apparently people need a lot of Additional Information when they look at a portrait if they dont get it some get really aggressive. After studying at the disorder of arts Academy Thomas started with architectural photography but soon moved on to making portraits retouching images and creating montage is. Explored unusual cameras too and used them to play with notions of authorship and reception. He borrowed Equipment Police used in the one nine hundred ninety s. To make facial composites of suspects to blur the line between portrait and mug shot in his own work. In response to the Media Coverage of the first gulf war got a special camera suited for nightime photography and took pictures of tranquil distant of the result Haunting Images evocative of war zones. His series entitled stana all stars experiments with scientific pictures taken by the european southern observatory which he says are better than anything he could produce amid the glass of images in the digital age who has been taking fewer pictures of his own relying more on photo archives. There are so many pictures on instagram because people want to capture the present. Thats why theyre constantly snapping away. The catch is that once they take a picture theyre actually looking back at the past forgotten so they have to take another one. Next. Now works on old pictures that resonate into the present of a photographer who isnt taking photos at present and who has long regarded his own life and work with a sense of right detachment a case in point these pictures he took of himself in ridiculous poses he called it his imprint series. Well anyone whos into food is certainly in the right place here in the german capital and thats thanks largely to the many foreigners who arrived since the fall of the wall and brought with them theyre wonderful Christina Lin has also long had a large Turkish Community and so for our series fifty kitchens one city we paid a visit to a restaurant icemans touched up for a plate of curtis or turkish me. I cant say whether im more turkish or more german by this time both. Sides are so tightly interwoven that its almost like a new national. Theyre both equally strong and stark him youre. Born as the older of two children in the turkish metropolis istanbul when she was five her family moved to munich shes lived in berlin since two thousand and one. Together with she runs the restaurant. Or osmans daughters a mutual friend introduced her to back when they were still working at their jobs law is a trained actress while as you started sales. Who was born in germany but lived with her grandparents in eastern anatolia until the age of five her parents then brought her to berlin. It was there that ours who crossed paths both dreamed of opening their own restaurant in twenty eleven those dreams began to take shape. There were no modern turkish restaurants in berlin and. Everything was so conservative and stale they were hardly any turkish restaurants where you could go with friends that had a welcoming atmosphere and was a bit more modern. At first. There was a big motivation for me. And. Right there was to create an open kitchen where professional chefs cooked alongside turkish housewives lawlers restaurant offers classic turkish cuisine along with modern interpretations of some of her favorite dishes. Both learn to cook as girls from their mothers. Of course its a traditional recipes play a big role in the shaft with either our mothers cooked with passion and love because they were feeding their families and wanted to please their hardworking husbands. And because we have turkish wives working here they bring this quality and these recipes to our menus in our restaurant to cart in like i. Have to see is a turkish classic. To see our meatballs also known as kafka in the English Speaking world there are more than two hundred ways to prepare them turkish cuisine is mediterranean and uses a lot of vegetables. They make a delicious side dish to his make up to see. Coughed as can be pan fried grilled or boiled. To see is a typical midday mail in turkey and is often served in look contests or lunch restaurants. They usually named after regions have to see is called to from the turkish port city of is me. Its characteristic flavor from the sauce which is made by combining tomato and red pepper paste. To the few. The saucer in turkish is very important for this and other dishes in and of to kish. Public i mark on you take red pepper. In tomato paste. Theres even a turkish saying about this. Sect is not took each. Culture means. It was expedited which means a meal without souter is like a woman without curves and. Of course we mean hips taller and ours who were full of ideas for the new restaurant for almost a year they renovated what had been an office space. For wall decoration they had a burn an artist paint the backs of oriental rugs. Opened in april twenty twelve in the trendy district. After the fall of the berlin wall this formally working class area became a hot spot for students and creative types. That has gotten a bit to enter