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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

Dialling up the past

(This blog post has been translated from the German original which you can read here.) Telephones... they never used to

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

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

A Reni day

In the summer of 1998, it was decided that the chapel choir in which I sang would go on a

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

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.

Saying cheese since 1838

When, in 1838, Louis Daguerre produced a daguerreotype of the Boulevard de Temple in Paris, the long exposure time of

Travelling through time with fans

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend a special screening at the BFI Southbank of Remembrance of

The Titanic and an Ulster fry

Despite the heat I have been thinking about cooked breakfasts. A close friend of mine is moving at the end

Parasols and snowstorms

With London basking in sunshine −and the hot weather here to stay for a few more weeks− I thought I

VIVE LA REVOLUTION

We are close to the annual celebration of Bastille Day and as I studied the French Revolution in art, I

The Wild East

Living in Berlin one cannot escape history. The history of Germany in the 20th century is everywhere in the city

Behind the scenes

Earlier this week, I was invited to a private view of this year's summer exhibition at the National Gallery in

The Organ Grinder

I was looking through a drawer of prints by Paul Almasy (Hungarian photographer, 1906–2003) last month when a familiar face appeared before me.

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