Thanks to Amber, a friendly California girl, that I met the same day it was possible to conduct a spontaneous idea: Using the term „elevator pitch“ in a much nicer way …
Read MoreLeica did it again
Thanks to the editors of the Magazine „Leica Fotografie International“ for choosing two more of my photos for the Leica Master Shots gallery respectively Leica‘s LFI gallery.
Rencontres d´Arles 2018
As in the summer of 2018, the international photography festival Rencontes d'Arles in Arles in the south of France will take place for over 40 years. I participated in the opening week in July. Despite the intense heat in the Provence, the festival is an Eldorado for photo art lovers and …
Read MoreMore pictures recorded to the LFI Leica Gallery
Thanks to the editors of the magazine LFI Leica Fotografie International for recording some of my images to their gallery in the section "Nude/Sensual" and "Portrait".
Read MoreGreat portraits by Vincent Peters in Berlin
The man has his own handwriting, seen photographically. Fashion and portrait shots by Vincent Peters are often recognizable at first glance. I have appreciated his work for a while. So I was especially pleased when I had the opportunity to …
Read MoreIrving Penn Centennial
The exceptional photographer Irving Penn would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. The C/O Berlin Foundation shows the breadth of his work with a large retrospective with 240 exhibits. Last weekend I really enjoyed …
Read MoreParis in the light of two photo festivals
In November 2017, the annual photo art fairs "Paris Photo" and "fotofever" took place again. See me impressions …
Read MoreBlue Moments in Hong Kong. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze in conversation with Thomas Berlin
I met Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze in November 2017 in Paris for an interview at the photo art fair "fotofever", where he was presented by …
Read MoreEvenings in the Vineyard
The idea of his series is a reminiscence of the cultural period of Romanticism in the 18th century. For the implementation I used the classical style elements evening as well as nature. As a nature, an old cultivated landscape (winegrowing) is presented, as it is typical in Europe. Potential elements in the image, which could reveal something about life in this landscape, were not included or blown out. Only the aesthetic ideal of Romanticism remains without a reference to the area.
Portraits and Fashion from Sibylle. My view of the current exhibition.
The magazine for fashion and culture "Sibylle" was a women's magazine founded in 1956 in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The exhibition in Opel Villen presents the Sibylle photographers with about 200 photographs.
Read MoreAnalogue or digital photography?
A confession before: Analogue photography I consider a step back and not really reasonable. But do you always have to be reasonable? Sometimes the fun should be in the foreground. And so we are in the case of analogue photography, which is currently attractive again for a small but growing minority …
Read MoreRenaissance art: Albrecht Dürer in Frankfurt
The Renaissance artists changed the view of the people of the Middle Ages. Their design principles are still interesting today, and some photographers also deal with it. Reason enough to look at the current Dürer exhibition as a photographer.
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