Janelle Monáe performing in the Mojo Club, Hamburg, 20.09.2013, AKG2484575, © akg-images / Jazz Archiv Hamburg

Monochromatic

Last month we shared a photograph on Twitter and Facebook that quickly became our most popular image ever posted on social media. …

Remembrance

As someone who came to The Great British Bake Off late, I was very pleased to discover that the Good Food channel is showing …

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 …

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 …

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 …