A Personal Farewell
When I decided to study Fine Art in England, people asked me “Do you want to become an artist? Surely you can’t …
Growing up in East Berlin
Long-distance relationships are a tricky thing to master. Not having to argue over banal things such as “toothpaste cap on or off?” …
It’s in the trees! It’s coming!
Click here to see a further selection of images inspired by “Into the Woods” over on the akg-images website. It’s the first …
Brief Encounters
My most recent trip to New York City was memorable in many ways. Apart from a fabulous and inspiring PACA conference – …
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 …
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 …