Since this book is a retrospective of my photographic and pictorial work of the last fifty years, I think it is permissible to use the old text from May 1986, already published in the photo book Waiting room, as a foreword.

I would like to thank Xiyao Wang and Elinor Jarvis for the Chinese and English translation of this text. Thanks are also due to Georg Kühn for the scans of the analogue photos and the old coins. Last but not least, I would like to thank the people who have accompanied me over the past fifty years and helped me in my photographic and artistic endeavours, especially my father Helmut Schindler for his trust and support.

The Chinese irreversible binomial 风光 [Wind/Light] describes the atmosphere of a landscape.

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