Notes on seeing, on light, and on the slow craft of making photographs.
Werner Düttmann’s windowless church in Kreuzberg, now the KÖNIG GALERIE: its history, Brandlhuber’s slab, and why it can only be photographed in parts — from Alexandrinenstraße, in the morning.
Seven brutalist buildings in Berlin worth photographing — Mäusebunker, St. Agnes, Bierpinsel, and the everyday concrete nobody defends. A photographer’s guide.
From Julius Shulman to Hélène Binet and Iwan Baan: twelve famous architecture photographers, and what a Berlin façade photographer takes from each of them.
For nearly three years I have been photographing the same building across the street. A note on repetition, patience, and what one façade can teach you when you refuse to move on.
The allure of interior photography lies in its promise to translate atmosphere, design intent, and spatial experience into a single, compelling frame. For the architectural photographer, however, every room presents a unique puzzle. The challenges shift dramatically between a stark modern loft and an opulent period salon, demanding not just technical prowess but a deep interpretive skill. Let’s explore the core hurdles and the masters who teach us to overcome them.
Brutalism has been explained many times, mostly by people defending it. I photograph it. Notes on Berlin’s concrete inheritance, hard light, and why colour is a decision.
One of my series needs sun and shadow. The other refuses both. A note on light as a rule, not an atmosphere — and on ten minutes that decided a picture.
I studied painting before I ever earned money with a camera. On what painting left behind in the photographs, the slow business of unlearning influences, and how a way of seeing narrows into a style.
For over twenty years I have walked through cities with a camera on my shoulder, not for the skyline but for the quiet gestures at street level. Street photography as a school of attention.
Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, Cindy Sherman, Andreas Gursky and Sebastião Salgado. A closer look at five photographers whose distinct signatures redefined portrait, documentary and conceptual photography.