Learning (to be) German
I was thirteen years old when the Berlin Wall came down. The reunification of East and West Germany happened while I was …
Balancing the physical and the spiritual
An article on the BBC website this week looked at how yoga and meditation are being used in prisons around the world …
Dialling up the past
(This blog post has been translated from the German original which you can read here.) Telephones… they never used to interest me, …
A Declaration of Love
One of the many perks of being a Picture Researcher for an archive as varied as akg-images is being able to time-travel …
Telefone – nur echt mit Wählscheibe
Telefone…hatten mich früher nie interessiert, nur wenn ich jemanden anrufen wollte und natürlich als Kind vorher meine Eltern fragen musste. Das grüne …
The genteel West – more cultural adventures in Berlin
After my recent adventures in Berlin’s east, this weekend was all about the West, more precisely the very affluent area around the …
A Reni day
In the summer of 1998, it was decided that the chapel choir in which I sang would go on a mini-tour of …
Top of the Lake – the power of landscapes!
If, like me, you still get the occasional flashback from Jane Campion’s recent television drama Top of the Lake floating around your head …
Run for your life?
Watching my akg-images colleagues do a 6km run yesterday got me thinking about how incredibly democratic a sport running is. It is …
Saying cheese since 1838
When, in 1838, Louis Daguerre produced a daguerreotype of the Boulevard de Temple in Paris, the long exposure time of over ten …