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…

As I've already mentioned here before I've been putting a lot of effort into the creation of some yearly slideshows towards the end of the year. Usually these slideshows are meant to be watched by some friends and by the greater family. They've become part of our family Christmas tradition. And it's also just fun to sort through all these photographs of the year and relive all these memories together.

This year I've started something new and was also preparing versions of these slideshows for a bigger audience. One after the other I'm going to upload these videos to YouTube and anyone who's curious enough to spend 30 minutes or up to one hour sitting in front of their computers or TVs can watch them now as well. read more…

The history of northern Italy is complex. It's a constant back and forth between different political and religious forces, between different cultures and ideals, between different interests. Guelphs and Ghibellins are two factions that developed in the 11th and 12th century. Their names originated from different opposing families in Germany. Guelphs ist the Italian form of the House of Welf, a family of dukes in Bavaria, a part of northern Germany. Their constant opponents were the Ghibellins originating in the family of Hohenstaufen. read more…

Thousand miles through northern Italy, a round trip from Brescia down to Rome and back up to Brescia again. Vintage cars, old towns and cities, curvy roads and a lot of history. That's Mille Miglia.

In a way I like cars. Cars are wonderful design objects telling a lot about the history and the paradigms of a certain period of time. On the other hand I don't exactly love cars like others do. To me cars are often noisy, too big and too fast for densely populated environments. But certainly I agree, cars are not only convenient, they are defining objects of our time. Still. So it's hard to not like cars. read more…