Berlin. 2025. History wherever you go. Like in many other major European cities you can't move a single cobblestone without revealing endless stories of the past. The future in such areas is always relative, it never exists without the things and stories that have existed before. Every decision comes with numerous consequences, consequences for the present, for the future, but also for the past. Change becomes difficult, if it happens at all. And yet change happens, but often not in the way it is or was intended. read more…
blog: photography
The summer of 2025 is almost over already but I still have some pictures to show you that hopefully bring back that summer vibe. Back in June I've been visiting the small Italian island of Elba for the very first time. Elba is best reached by car via a ferry boat from the mainland. The obvious route starts in the city of Piombino and ends in Ponteferraio, the biggest city of the island. The boat trip takes about 1 hour. Piombino can be reached by train as well but navigating to all the tiny locations and little towns of Elba is really difficult or just impossible without a car. There are busses from Ponteferraio to certain beaches and a selection of little towns across the island but of course not to all of them. read more…
Big, huge, vast, impressive, intimidating, monumental, majestic, colossal. It's these terms that start spinning through my head when looking at the unfinished tons of brick and granite of the Congress Hall (German Kongresshalle) in Nuremberg. The often so called Coliseum has been designed by Franz and Ludwig Ruff in 1935 as part of Hitler's fantasy of a thousand year Reich. It's part of the Nazi Party Rally Ground (German Reichparteitagsgelände), a huge, only partly finished area at the outskirts of the city and was meant to house 50000 members of the Nazi Party during their annual Congresses. The advent of Word War II brought the construction to a halt in 1939. read more…
For now this will be my third and last slideshow video of my recent trips. Again the slideshow is almost an hour long and condenses a week of adventures into a continuous stream of images and short clips. So let's dive in.
This video is about my trip to Venice in late summer of 2024. My main focus of this trip was watching the Venice Art Biennale of 2024 and their various venues. I've also been visiting some of the Collaterali events, these are like add ons to the main exhibition spread all across the city of Venice and its lagoon. But of course what's a trip to Venice without actually watching Venice and all its glory. There's a reason why it's called the Serenissima and of course I can't let you go without showing you at least some of the marvels of this often so unexpected but still beautiful city. read more…
In this ongoing series I'm trying to present you my most important images of 2024 in a new way. For each of my trips I have put together a slideshow that compresses roughly one week of images into a slideshow of roughly 1 hour, usually less. I know this still means quite a lot of commitment and also a lot of trust, so grab a chair, make yourself comfortable and start watching.
I hope I've found the right balance between the chronological truth and logic and the amount of artistic expression and laissez faire. Now here's the second of these videos. Welcome to Tuscany. read more…