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Behind the shoot

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modern shooting with the tavascan

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The Tavascan shoot was built on a single rule: one car, one neighbourhood that matches it, and nothing in the frame that looked older than the car itself.

Autohaus Fischer sent a Cupra Tavascan and one question: where does a car like this belong? Everything else was ours to decide. We chose the "Kernbergviertel" in Jena for its modern lines and quiet luxury, matched every angle to the architecture, and agreed that nothing ordinary would enter the frame.

A residential street sounds like an easy backdrop. On the day it works like a mirror. Glass, steel and clean concrete echo the shapes of the car, so the only thing that stands out from frame to frame is the Tavascan itself.

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Let the architecture do the talking

The best frames came when we stopped chasing the car and started following the light. As the sun dropped behind the buildings, the copper details began to glow against the cool facades. That is where the warmest pictures of the series come from.

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A parking garage has no sun, no sky and no golden hour.

I plan every underground shoot around the light that’s already there, the flicker of old tubes and the glow from the exit signs, and I no longer try to fix it. The concrete decides, and the car usually agrees with it.

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