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Photowalk Berlin #2: Ramping up the Highway
Just me, my camera and pleasant conversation. This time I went through the district of Steglitz. The weather was overcast and cold. Perfect for moody black and white shots. My focus on this day were the abysmal urban spaces created by planners who thought that building elevated highways (“Stadtautobahn”) complete with on- and off-ramps through […]
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Photowalk Berlin #1
Just me, my camera and maybe a pleasant companion. This time I went through the districts of Friedenau and Wilmersdorf. The weather was sunny but cold.
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Window Shopping
The term window shopping describes the activity of looking into shop windows without buying anything or sometimes even entering the store. This is what I have been doing for a while. Because people who are not vaccinated against Covid are only allowed to enter shops that sell “essential goods” like supermarkets, drug stores and so […]
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The skeleton of documentary photography
What I do is most accurately described as documentary photography. It is similar to photojournalism or street photography. It differs from the former by not being focused on current events and from the latter by not being focused on people, although it can cover both. What it has in common is a certain style of […]
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Acros: The end of a love affair
One of the reasons why I bought a Fujifilm X100F was the Acros film simulation. Most of my images are black and white and the X100F was the first camera (except the Leica Monochrome) that offered a dedicated black and white mode. Sure every digital camera can do black and white but virtually all cameras […]
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Little Boxes
Facades are the landscape of cities. They are what we see immediately, they are what we can not escape and they have a profound impact on what we feel in an urban enviroment. They are so important and so ubiquitous that there is a whole genre of photography dedicated to architecture. And facades are next […]
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It has been a while
It has been a while since I met someone new. It has been even more of a while since I visited Berlin. People were reluctant to meet and most places were closed in Berlin. Why bother sitting masked in a train to go where everything is closed and the winter weather makes long walks uncomfortable. […]
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Babaluna Berlin
I am writing a lot about what many call gentrification. This word is often used with negative connotations concerning high rents, monocultural city districts, NIMBYism and the displacement of less affluent citizens. I am a bit more sanguine about gentrification which is just one part of the everchanging urban landscape. For me gentrification is nothing […]
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Toxic Concrete Creek
This creek was artificially constructed with a concrete bed, regular cobblestones used for sidewalks and a couple of boulders. Behind me is a bigger boulder with sprouts which acts like a sort of fountain. The creek empties into the small artificial pond in the background. The water fountain gets water from the pond so it […]
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