photography
The End of Winter
On the lagoon, on h5p5 film, from the bateo or the bus. Moving in a still frame and freezing the last cold. Venezia, March 2025.
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Place to Be
Place I am in at the very least. Also: place to discover, which has been an ongoing process since a couple of years. Mestre is Venice’s little sister, mostly overlooked because of the fame and impossible beauty of her older…
The industrip state of mind
It usually takes hours and days of travel. On-the-road hardships, brothel-like sketchy hotels, terrible food and steak-selling vending machines to call it an industrip. Not this time. This was a industroll, caught in between rainfalls when a pale white sun…
Hands.
On a piano. Portraits of pianist Jakub Tchorzewski for the booklet in “Piano Works 4”, music by Henryk Pachulski, edition Acte Préable 2024. The bw shot was taken at Filarmonica Romana in Rome, Italy. The color one is a studio…
Silver but Gold
Gelatin silver on a happy time. Venice, Forte Marghera, February 2025.
Minimalismo Mediterraneo
My excellent friend’s excellent blog and live dj-set were the excuse for this stroll through Venice at the end of Winter, on an almost warm February day. I was looking for details, patterns, Mediterranean shapes and moods. I found some,…
Varanasi, India
A Mystical Bazar. November 2024
Ancient, gothic and fishes
It has been a hectic autumn, starting in Germany with some gothic churches and the ritual visit to Master Albrecht Dürer in his gothic town. Moving on to the eternal beauty of Rome – with a quick stop in its…
Industrial Again. This time with humans.
Another round of photography in the MeccAlte Factory in northern Italy. This time featuring the Humans operating the machines. Selection from a larger batch. September 2024.
Summer films
Berlin, Venice, Friends, dogs and visions. Where the fuck is home? The summer of 2024 was dense. Now that it is gone I realize how much is changing, how much I and the world around me are molting. These rolls…
Industrial heritage aka the industrip adventures
Back on the road after the first Italian winter in twenty (!) years. Much needed and maybe deserved, t he industrip brought me back to my hunt for industrial wonders of ancient Europe. This time it was Germany and Czech…
Once again with Fog
Venice in fog again: I left behind a roll of film from my week with Miron so here it is, emerged to life after some weeks and some more films. Lagoon fog, the wonderful Miron Zownir, Venice at the end…
Black and white (strolling with the man in black)
February 2024, a long shortest month. I had the privilege of spending a week with one of my favorite photographers and watch him at work. Before getting to know him in person I would refer to him as The Man…
Pozo
Pleased and honored to portrait artist Juan Miguel Pozo Cruz in his atelier in Berlin Neukölln. Berlin, February 2024. The film shots: [by the way, I was using Bergger Pancro 400 for the first time for portraits. I am more…
Marta
This is a personal fun portrait photoshoot for my beautiful friend Marta. Thank you for modeling <3
Chasing the Fish
I spent about 40 minutes chasing a fish on the shallow waters of a Mestre canal. The winter day was sunny and not cold. The fish is not – or hardly -to be seen but my friends and some industrial…
Duncker Club – Berlin, dismantled
There was a party in my favorite club in Berlin last Friday. Im Duncker Club. The occasion was the reunion tour of Italian band cccp. I was incredibly honored to be asked by organizers Valentina Ferrarese and Dj Orløg to…
The Marghera Blues
Low light in northern Italy this week. Christmas, families and a new look at old and dear projects. I went back to The Other Cathedrals to make some minor changes to the video and send it to some art prize…
Sunrise
I love facing east in the morning.
At the Circus
This is the showcase of the Togni circus art school in Verona, Italy. See the complete selection here. December, 2023.
Summer Portraits
Beautiful People in Beautiful places. One roll was damaged during development (very clear in picture #2) because a tiny crack let light leak in. This reminds me of all these people, who let light leak into my life and give…
Impro Brain Sound Pro
A beautiful night of great sounds by Martina Bertoni and Paolo Dellapiana on stage at NU Fest, the electronics festival organized by Veneto Jazz. To me a soft and great landing in Venice thanks to a great musician and lovely…
Overdevelopment
I was riding my bike yesterday and out of the blue I started thinking about photographic development and other kinds of development I know. It seems to me that everything that gets or performs a development is either an organism…
Northern Light
So long I have lived in the North, that southern light infinitely amazes me and makes me waste rolls and rolls of film. This happened last month, when I overexposed everything I could during the day – or I optimistically…
Menschen in Silber
Portraits on film carry a depth and intensity that I have never experienced in the digital media. Here is a series made with the help of my beautiful friends in the spring of 2023. Should one person be represented more,…
Juxtapositions #3
Yoyo Röhm is one of the nicest and most interesting people I have met in Berlin, and a really great musician. When he invited me to photograph this night of music and old friends coming together I immediately said yesofcourse,…
Faust & Co.
Great night of beautiful music and varied genres for the Sonic Morgue series curated by Christian Morin. On stage Chandra Shukla with sithar, opening the view into a field of crispy orange sounds. Followed by the incredible duo Daniel Miller…
Strain of Laws
Finest industrial sounds by Strain of Laws aka Aaron Hemphill and John Wiese, experienced live at Arkaoda Berlin on April 12, 2023. The room was as dark as the sound but here we go with some fuzzy impressions. Love. Listen…
Industrial
This is how far we have come since relying on the sun to get our heat. I am ever fascinated by industrial scale processes and the power of human industriousness. Spending two days in the industrial sites of MeccAlte I…
MixTape
It has been a busy couple of months, traveling around Europe and walking the streets of some beautiful cities. Confusion runs high, but it is of the good kind, each moment of beauty is a gift from the sky, each…
The seven Heavenly Places
“The seven heavenly places” is a permanent, site-specific installation by Anselm Kiefer at Hangar Bicocca in Milan. A post-apocalyptic scenery that reaches into the archetypes and deepest roots of our western culture with concrete broken towers sprouting out of a…
On the Street.
PLACES. PEOPLE. THINGS. This is a short trip to Catania in February, 2023.
When Life gives you Amaretto
It all started when my friend Francesco sent me a picture of his glass of beer, cheering with me from afar. I decided to pour myself some Amaretto to toast with him and ended up photographing it in white and…
“Roman Palester: Piano Music vol. 2” – record release
Somehow strangely and blessed by chance, last fall I had the luck to come across an immensely beautiful project. Two incredible artists in one great record, which I feel so honored to have contributed to and quickly became my favorite…
Home is where
An afternoon fading into midnight stroll through the city I was born in – and what luck to grow up surrounded by such beauty. Life is layered and opaque though, sometimes you can see best from a distance. The night…
Photography Heals #1
I just realized I haven’t done my usual once-a-year self-portraits session in 2022. Probably because I have been thinking too much about it, especially after setting up a dating-app profile which led me to think a lot about the difference…
A Night Out
Powerful mr. Michael Gira and delicate mr. Joseph Van Wissem on stage at Sonic Morgue, Betonhalle Berlin. The show also included performances by Kristof Hahn and Jarboe, unfortunately their photos are no good at all. To hopefully be reshot. December…
Munsha&Zerbinati
This is coming home. Back to live music at Borsig AMP Fest. Unfortunately without much of a blast on the sound or lighting side. Sand on sound and sand on light. In this performance however brain and guts unite and…
Laguna
This is still getting to know colour film. I wanted to capture one thing, the shades of everything that are visible on the Laguna water right after the sun has reached a certain angle, shortly before sunset. Kind of a…
Alice in a Box
Open Calls for the next project by Munsha and me
Beauty.
This is a complicated post to write, for the photo shoot was completely improvised and the amount of beauty that struck me is as large as it is completely unexpected. It started with fluorescent light and a raging storm outside.…
The Other Cathedrals at Z22
Prints of The Other Cathedrals for the Werkschau#3 at Z22 gallery, Berlin
Bob Rutman on We Jazz
It’s been and it is being a long October! In the whirlwind of coming to see my family in Italy, giving the final touches to my video project (stay tuned!) and getting to the opening of the Z22 exhibition in…
What an almost random shot can do.
Where it all began. Or a lot at least.
FLUS-S [Fluchtmodus]
One weekend of sound experiments and lovely creative people in the beautiful Ausland venue. Produced and organized by great Munsha – let me quote her to describe the event: “FLUS-S assembles unusual and broad planes of sound, combining microtonality, prepared…
HURDY
HURDY by Caroline Cecilia Tallone
Once again in colour
Marghera in color - Portra 400 film roll
June and travel
Beautiful Places & Beautiful people
À la Bastille
Sisters&Niece in Paris
My friend Ale
Ale&Pupetta
FLUS-S [Fluchtmodus] – Das Vorspiel
[FLUCHTMODUS]
Tales from the other side #2
Me by Tanja Kloth-Bober
FraGiusti
FraMiticoGiusti
Boxing Girls
Boxing Ladies during training.
2022
FUCK WAR
Über Heimat
Porträt ohne Mensch
Munsha.
Wonderful studio session with wonderful Munsha. February 2022.
Aprègarde Dub Orchestra
November 2021, @Fabrik Potsdam. Bob Rutman memorial concert of the Apregard Dub Orchestra. A night of wonderful live music and a great emotional tribute to our late friend. Here the complete selection. My photo was chosen for the Taz article…
Tales from the other side
Once a year in winter I become a model. This is the amazing work by Berlin photographer Thomas Nitz. At first, several portraits are sketched on a background. When that is full, the background is ready for the DarkBox Camera,…
Thoughts of war and flowers
This was a mid-winter studio session, started as a model book photo shoot and ended like this… The flowers are courtesy of my sister. Model: Winfried. January, 2022.
UR
UR is a two-men band with thoughts of psychedelia and a sound between nostalgic and visionary. Looks like the beginning of a wonderful series. January, 2022.
Beautiful Noise
The Beautiful Noise compilation is out! featuring diverse collaboration of late Bob Rutman. Edited by Rex Joswig, Herbst in Peking and others, published by Molokoplus Records. Kindly featuring my photos of Bob. The record page on Molokoplus is here. Photography…
Portrait ohne Mensch
Longer than a year in, the Ostkreuzschule seminar I have been following, lead by long-time-favourite Sven Marquardt, is coming to an end. The theme assigned to the group is “Heimat”. A very German word with nuances and resonances that are…
Mädchenorchester // Record
This is the session shot @Munsha‘s studio for the Mädchenorchester album artwork. August 2021.
Mädchenorchester
Coming home was never better – after a month out of town I came back to get into the theatre to shoot stage photographs of Spreeagenten’s pièce Mädchenorchester, by Susanne Chudina – with the wonderful soundtrack by Munsha. Amazing work…
Cathedrals
This is the holidays – Marghera, Völklingen and Duisburg hunting industrial architecture sites and sunrays. September 2021.
August 2021
This is August. In the last week of the project the Liebig12 team organised a little market – so I chose 6+6 photos to print. The black and white were mounted with passe-partout and black frame, the abstracts I mounted…
Take your Time
This is me trying to take my time in a time of slowness that is running much too fast. In my studio, august 2021
Cyanotype Lab
I the summer of 2021 Dzanchara, Lichene and Astrid took over the Liebig12 project space in Berlin for a couple of months. Among several other things, we had open lab days for cyanotype. People came over and printed blue with…
A photograph of Napoleon Bonaparte
The thought plaguing me these days. Eighteen years, only eighteen more years, and we could have had a photograph of Napoleon Bonaparte. A daguerrotype, to be more precise. Daguerre presents his invention, up and running, in 1839. His research had…
They are Dead. Wrapped in Plastic.
Sibylle Bergemann and her reportage about the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin, GDR. How comes I am using the infamous TP incipit to write about Sibylle Bergemann and Berlin? The Berlin – David Lynch link is there, and for many, it has…
moroccan blues
Makeup with indigo blue from morocco. I fucked up the lights royally, so this lands into the box “ode to mistakes”. Studio photos, March 2021.
standing on the shoulders of giants
A stroll through berlin’s graveyards. February 2021
berlin icm
A drunken sight of the city. January 2021
Alices Geschwister
Magic is. It’s been almost a year. No concerts, no live shows, no theatre. No stage and no backstage, no moving acting performing humans to photograph. Munsha’s piece Alices Geschwister was supposed to be ready and performed in November. Second…
Narciso
Studio session for a assigned theme (Love+Hate) – with lovely Simone as a model, and daffodils. Basically an ode to the narcs. January 2021 The selection: And some other shots from the session:
Disco TIQ
This is a first draft, but the product is so amazing that it deserves a first mention. This is a square record, made as a 10 year anniversary treat for and by the great organisers of the TIQ party in…
Venice (night icm)
Take a mid-december late afternoon in pandemic-struck, empty Venice, a digital camera, a tripod and Time. Venice, December 2020
Amaryllis
This is in the studio, after a night at home with Simone, who always makes me feel good and willing to create. Autumn is my favourite season for a number of reasons – one of them is Amaryllis. Berlin, December…
Marta
November 2020 Studio shoot from classic… …to some long exposure… …and some light-painting on Marta.
Memory #1
This project started in The late winter of 2020, simultaneously to the so called first lockdown due to the corona virus pandemic. The idea of working on Berlin memorial sites had been in my head for a while; now I suddenly…
Generative Phototgraphy
The photography biennale in Berlin is a month of awe for all those interested in the infinte Ways of the Lens. All around town there are more shows than one could see, all genres, all times of photography are involved. This…
Medusa
I went to the Aquarium to stand in front of the Jelly Fish tank and be hypnotised by them. Of course I shot all the other poor captive fish as well, and those are destined to be stock photos which…
Alex Denver
This is a lovely portrait session that came to be in the summer of 2020. Alex Denver is a beautiful Tattoo Artist from Italy, who lives and works in Berlin. We shot the photos in a big loft in Kreuzberg,…
Trigrams
This is a representation of the eight I-Ching trigrams, made with acupuncture needles. I am not one to ever use the words Best Friend – mainly because every single human who ever used those on me eventually tried to fuck…
Danielle
This portrait photography session is about exploring identity through a moment of transition. How does the camera capture securities and insecurities – what it is to feel safe, what shows of our inner predicament from the poses we choose to…