Photography has accompanied Fabian Boreck since childhood and is, in his free time, an important balance to his profession as a cellist.

He publishes his images of landscapes under the artist name Fabian Maximilian ‒ the photographs of instruments under his real name.

With a Certo Super Dollina II (ca. 1950s), he learned the basic photographic skills and techniques as well as the feeling for image composition. Nature and landscape always played a special role.

Since 2012, he mainly photographs the landscapes of Germany and, increasingly again, musical instruments.

Working with the Super Dollina II, which is now about 70 years old and still in use, has had a significant influence on the way he works with digital photography today: His aim is always to take a maximum of one to two shots of each motif on location, through careful and considered procedures. These are then finished at home with as little digital processing as possible.

By consciously reducing the amount of work on location as well as in post-processing, he wants to retain the sense of photography as a craft consisting of knowledge, experience and skill, despite the countless digital possibilities.

The technology used is the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III with fast zoom and prime focal lengths from 15 to 600mm (equiv. 35mm format); plus high-quality optical filters by Formatt-Hitech and B+W Schneider-Kreuznach. For everyday impressions, he uses the Leica D-Lux 6 (Vario-Summilux 24-90/1.4-2.3 ASPH (equiv.)). In addition, he uses the previously mentioned Certo Super Dollina II (Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50/2.8) and a Certo Six (6×6 medium format from the 1950s with Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 80/2.8) with Kodak Ektar 100 and Fujifilm Provia 100.