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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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 factories of MeccAlte I came…
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” 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…
PLACES. PEOPLE. THINGS. This is a short trip to Catania in February, 2023.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Wonderful studio session with wonderful Munsha. February 2022.
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…
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,…
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 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.
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…
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…
This is the session shot @Munsha‘s studio for the Mädchenorchester album artwork. August 2021.
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…
This is the holidays – Marghera, Völklingen and Duisburg hunting industrial architecture sites and sunrays. September 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…
This is me trying to take my time in a time of slowness that is running much too fast. In my studio, august 2021
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…
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…
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…
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.
A stroll through berlin’s graveyards. February 2021
A drunken sight of the city. January 2021
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…
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:
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…
Take a mid-december late afternoon in pandemic-struck, empty Venice, a digital camera, a tripod and Time. Venice, December 2020
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…
November 2020 Studio shoot from classic… …to some long exposure… …and some light-painting on Marta.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…