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dilettante de luxe “All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.“ Walter Bendix Schoenflies Benjamin 15 07 1892 Berlin / 26 09 1940 Portbou dm me for inquiries about fine art prints

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 12h

he’s playing him like a fiddle

benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 12h

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · May 31

-room with a view -
guillemins liège belgium
31 05 2024 16:30

The image shows a contemporary urban landscape featuring a striking modern building with a curved, multi-colored roof. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective, looking down on a broad pedestrian walkway lined with young trees and bordered by safety barriers. A few people are walking along the path, adding a sense of scale to the setting. In the background, there are additional buildings and a bus, with a lush green hillside rising beyond the urban area. The sky above is dramatic, filled with dark, billowing clouds, contrasting with patches of bright blue.

benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 13h

paris, i miss you … not because you are gone, but because you taught me often to see. to pause. to listen to the murmurs of space. these photographs are fragments of that conversation … small attempts to hold onto the fleeting poetry of light, reflection, and time.

benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 13h

walter benjamin’s arcades project often returns to me when i walk through these passages … his idea that the arcade is both a dream and a ruin, a place where modernity reveals its ghostly aura. in these images, i recognize that same melancholy radiance.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 13h

the second photograph is denser, more layered … a bookshop overflowing with paper and dust, the cracked marble under my shoes, the smell of old ink. i felt a deep tenderness for this scene, as if it held all the unfinished stories of those who had passed before me.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 13h

… between the public and the private, the intimate and the monumental. it felt like walking through an interior landscape of thought.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 14h

in the first image, i remember the stillness most of all … the narrow corridor of the passage, the soft echo of footsteps, a couple alone with theit drinks. above the glass roof gathers the grey light of the city. everything seems to breathe slowly. i was drawn to that fragile balance …

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · 14h

paris, i miss you

i took these photographs in a moment of quiet drift … wandering without purpose, guided only by light and the rhythm of my own steps. paris always returns to me this way: not as a place, but as an atmosphere that lingers somewhere between memory and architecture.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jul 25

besitz und vertrieb > gefängnisstrafe ohne bewährung

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jul 24

ich habe paris gelesen : )

benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jul 16

- ordinary magic -
place saint-louis metz france
14 07 2025 13:23

a carousel wrapped in veils, waiting in a deserted square.
its music silenced, its horses unseen. behind it, old facades watch like quiet witnesses, their windows the eyes of another century. cobblestones stretch forward, heavy with the memory of countless steps, yet no foot disturbs their silence now.

this is a portrait of potential, suspended: joy enclosed, time on pause. even the sky seems unsure.
clouds gathering, dispersing, unable to decide whether to break or to hold.

here, the carousel becomes a metaphor for longing: the longing for motion, for laughter, for the ordinary magic of turning in circles under an indifferent sky. we glimpse the fragility of human rituals, how easily they fold into stillness, and how in that stillness, they quietly endure, waiting to be called back to life.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jun 21

- interplay -
home
21 06 2025 21:02

in this image, time layers itself,
the drawing recalls a world of rest and endurance,
where camels and bedouins embody a rhythm older than history.
yet it is not the figures that speak,
but the interplay of shadow and light:
a silent dialogue between presence and transience.
the sun, filtered through leaves, becomes an echo,
suggesting that all permanence is projection,
and every image is a resting place for passing light.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jun 19

- join me -
home
19 06 2025 13:07

a table beneath jasmine and time,
woven shade casting secrets in stripes.
wind chimes speak in slow syllables,
while quiet chairs wait for stories
told over leaves and light.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jun 8

- fernweh und einkehr -
pizzolungo capri italy
28 04 2016 10:40

a image of mine that reminds me of the deep yearning in caspar david friedrich’s ‘sehnsuchtslandschaften, where the visible is but a veil over the infinite. the jagged rocks rise from the sea like forgotten thoughts of the earth, solitary and eternal, bearing the weight of time. the silhouetted trees bent and reaching, evoke the tender asymmetry of a hasegawa tōhaku pine, their presence both framing and dissolving the scene.

here, the horizon breathes a thin line where sky and water converse in whispers. the scene is not one of drama, but of quiet revelation. nature is not a backdrop for man’s striving, but a mirror to his interiority: longing, impermanence, acceptance.

as in shinkei’s ink landscapes, mist and emptiness are as vital as form. the photograph resembles this: the open sea is a vastness that invites both melancholy and liberation.

In the spirit of romanticism, the viewer is not outside this scene but absorbed by it. the rocks do not merely stand in the sea; they are metaphors of solitude and the sublime indifference of nature. the trees do not simply frame the image; they suggest the ephemeral nature of vision, the partiality of human grasp.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jun 8

♥︎♡

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · Jun 2

- message to all the people -
robertson quay singapore
30 04 2025 21:12

in the quiet veil, love whispers
behind soft folds of fabric, a message rests:
« love changes everything »
its letters not shouted, but suspended,
casting shadows that repeat themselves
like memories
or promises not yet broken.

a small emblem, two hands meeting,
anchors the words
in the realm of gesture and grace,
where touch becomes language
and presence becomes vow.

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · May 30

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benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · May 19

originally posted on bluesky with the intention to vanish, i chose instead to let it remain, like a fleeting moment allowed to settle, quietly, into permanence.

benjamin josef @benjaminjosef.bsky.social · May 19

- scarlet -
gardens by the bay singapore
01 05 2025 14:56

alt:
two delicate flowers of cordia sebestena, also known as scarlet cordia or geiger tree, linger against a backdrop of textured leaves, their pale, crumpled petals softly catching the light.