Journal

On May 27, 2026, a demonstration was organised in Vienna to protest against government funding cuts affecting the entire Austrian university sector.

Vienna’s outer ring road, the Gürtel, forms a boundary between the inner and the outer districts of Austria’s capital. Once a respectable address for socially aspiring families, it is now one of the city’s busiest traffic corridors. Parts of the Gürtel have long been associated with Vienna’s red-light district. At night, clubs, bars and music […]

Encountering Martin Parr It took me quite some time to come to terms with the work of British photographer extraordinaire Martin Parr. On the one hand, his photography, to me, is visually uniquely striking. His photographs capture the world that they document as if they were made for some high-gloss advertising pamphlet. They do this […]

An aspect that certainly has defined my photographic journey of the last ten years is the desire to make compelling street portraits – mostly candid shots, occasionally posed ones upon my request. (I much prefer candid ones, as I don’t like forced smiles or distorted poses – but I also prefer to take them from up-close, […]

London Euston is one of the busiest train stations in the United Kingdom and, arguably, the station with the worst reputation of all national railway stations in London. There are a number of reasons for that, from the decision to rebuild the historical station in the 1960s, including the loss of its iconic doric arch […]

In an earlier piece (see here) I mentioned that I discovered a curious cache of photos in the box in which I received my enlarger. So … story time! I bought the enlarger from a lady in Vienna, herself of Polish origin, who had acquired the item for her own artistic purposes – that is […]

On September 29th, 2024. a general election was held in Austria. To the surprise of no-one with an interest in Austrian politics, the country’s long-established far-right party, the “Freedom Party of Austria” (“Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs”, FPÖ), under the leadership of its chairman Herbert Kickl, won a majority of approximately 30% of the votes. Only a […]

Somewhere in the northeastern corner of the Uckermark, an area of outstanding natural beauty and a nature reserve, there is a little spot that might be used as the very definition of “the middle of nowhere”: Bahnhof Schönermark, Schönermark railway station (follow this link for a German wikipedia article and this link for another article […]

A little while ago, I received a couple of cameras from a former co-worker of mine who was aware of my interest in analogue photography (thank you once again!). One item in this small collection, as I unboxed it, turned out to be the gift that kept on giving: The camera in question is a […]

One of the photographers whose work I enjoy is Harald Hauswald (find out more about him on his webpage following this link). Much of his work was published by a publishing house called Lehmstedt-Verlag. When I discovered that yet another recently published book that I very much enjoyed, this time Uwe Steinberg’s volume Berlin (see […]

I do not often shoot colour films, and I tried to explain my reasons for that in a blog post that I wrote a long time ago: if you wish to find out more, just follow this link. But, as I already explained back then, I am by no means a purist: I enjoy other […]

A few months ago, Jason and Claude of Greenwich Cameras convinced me to try out a roll of Film Washi V: a hand-crafted black and white film on Japanese gampi paper. Somewhat sceptical I bought a roll – sceptical not because of their advice (they are amazing: seriously, go and see them, if you are […]

I love black and white photography. For me, it’s a great way to see the world, reducing the noise around me to something that I find both quintessential and aesthetically pleasing. Black and white photography is not everyone’s cup of tea, and I’m by no means a proselytising purist. Shoot whatever you like, black and […]

When I grew up in 1970s Berlin, Agfa films were a household name. I’m pretty sure that this is what my father used a lot, especially when it came to slides. I couldn’t have been happier when I, just over a year back I managed to purchase a few rolls – expired in 1972 and […]