Steve Koll (°1977, Mortsel, Belgium) I bought my first film camera as a young adult, a second hand Pentax K1000, but not for holiday pics or candid family photos. No, I mounted the camera on my microscope and captured the invisible. The pond water from the nearby park didn't have any secrets for me. The camera went along on holidays, until it was exchanged for a digital one. A second digital camera followed, that crunched on the sand grains of the Namibian desert, begged for air in the Simian Mountains in Ethiopia and gasped under the humid climate of Myanmar. A trustful travel partner, but slightly obese. The Leica M10-R enlarged his portfolio with no-nonsense street- and nature photography, intertwined with an abstract image every now and then. The Leica candids changed his photographic experience and that camera now often functions as the extension of his arm.