Brigitte Lucke is a journalist and professional photographer specialising in travel- and food photography. She studied art history, geography and urbanism in Bonn, where she graduated with a Phd. She has been living in Palma de Mallorca for 30 years.
She offers courses in Mallorca for those wishing to capture the special scenery, and the magical light.
Her approach to photography is summarised as ‘zense photography’ which involves the photographer and the subject being photographed becoming as one, so creating a shared space full of sensory impressions.
Brigitte Lucke conducts courses on landscape, fine art, abstract and food photography, photo editing in Lightroom and Photoshop and is known for her ZENSE photo walks and seminars on the beautiful island Mallorca, where she is based in Palma and Soller.
Her passion for travel, culture, food and photography guided her to work as a food photographer for culinary schools, cookbooks, restaurants, caterers and food bloggers. Her interest in the culinary world includes many areas from food styling to professional food photography and recipe development. She loves to transform flavours into mouth watering food images that are irresistible.
When not chasing the light in a kitchen, Brigitte can be found photographing landscape, culture, and food and meeting up with people eating and exploring around the world following her curiosity and urge to travel.
As a travel and culture photographer I like the natural light's energy and vitality. The pictures are already there, some impose themselves, others invite to explore the scenery and capture the magic of the moment.
The impact of a landscape can be as strong as that of a single leaf hit by a ray of sunlight, which I give the same attention as when dealing with great mountain views or a glowing sunset. There is always the camera in between me and the moment, like the glass pane of a window. Behind it I am observing a scene taking place. And then like a curtain in front of a stage, that I try to raise carefully, I observe the event and set sail to steal a glance behind the scenes.
A house, a stone, a memory, the nuance of an anecdote, like a substance that unfolds beyond the narrative.
Other pictures I need to trace, mute against the phenomena, because speech makes us feel the fugitive nature of the moment.
Pictures emerge from personal encounters, gestures, the movement of a shadow on a wall, the prelude to a story, a huge orchestra in the color range of a rainbow or only a moment, transient like the flutter of a birds wing, the sounds of silence on the edge of the stage.
Brigitte Lucke