What Is an Artist’s Proof?
15 September 2026
An artist’s proof is a print outside the numbered edition, marked A/P. Where the term comes from, how many are made, and whether they are actually worth more.
Notes on seeing, on light, and on the slow craft of making photographs.
An artist’s proof is a print outside the numbered edition, marked A/P. Where the term comes from, how many are made, and whether they are actually worth more.
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.
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.