The changing language of craft – Berlin

This article appeared on the Craft Guerrilla Zine, issue nr.8 (Winter Zine), which you can must buy here.
You can get it either as pdf or hard copy. It is a monthly issue which features articles, fantastic illustrations and …

Visions of humans – ongoing

In continuous evolution…
From the series: Visions of humans

Tags: analog, berlin, city, lights, mitte, park, public space, urbanism, visions of humans…

The ballad of those things that will not be remembered

Tags: analog, berlin, cars, city, environment, lights, lines, mitte, patterns, public space, resources, urbanism…

Patterns in the city

Also featuring: aesthetics of the economic downturn.

Tags: berlin, city, economy, mitte, order, pattern, private realm, public space, recession, regularity, urbanism…

Decide what goes on the billboard

I was walking through Alexanderplatz in the late afternoon, when I saw a group of people drawing on what is normally a panel reserved for advertisement. So I parked my bicycle and talked to them.
It turns out, this was…

Of course I will do it for free – Photographer

UPDATE: there is a new image below.
Inspired by past and always recurring proposals of the “but we will give you exposure”-type, I thought I had no more words. However, it turns out I do.
So, random brand or whatever…

Anti-nuclear energy demonstration in Berlin: let’s fight the system, just not the sexist part of it

On Saturday 18th, roughly 100.000 gathered and marched… from Hauptbahnhof (Berlin central station) to the Reichstag, to show their opposition to the government unwillingness to completely abandon nuclear energy.
I was there, as you can imagine, and besides walking alongside

Domesticity series: hiccups-free morning

A few months ago I mentioned the calm before the storm… in what seems like a typical rant of mine. In the past few months I have been thinking about domesticity for other projects and small investigations, though those were

Photography books

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I have a lot of books on photography and I keep on accumulating and accumulating them. I think about is as a path that I am building for myself. Since there is so much to learn about, I sometimes tend

Frankfurt Main Station

Frankfurt Main Station, in German Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, is the busiest railway station in Germany in terms of railway traffic, and the second in Germany when it comes to number of passengers. Hamburg main station can reach 550.000 passengers per…

When in London, think about Berlin

I am in London for a couple weeks to attend two interesting courses on textile design… and this chaotic city tends to be overwhelming, at least to someone who is used to relaxed, “take-your-time” Berlin. Not sure why, but whenever

Project planner series: The project description

A project description needs not be very long. As a matter of fact, it should probably be 3-4 pages maximum. However, as you apply to different funding institutions, you might be given a different page limit. The point of this…

Sharing knowledge – Film photography podcast, useful things

It’s always nice to discover things you thought the world needed. Case in point, I recently stumbled upon the film photography podcast…, which is something the world needed because, as the authors themselves recognize, the world is already filled

Looping – On absence

It is not possible to show absence of men. The act of taking a photograph is a human action, and that who gazes at the photograph is destined to think of a man or a woman, if not because of…

Photos from somewhere else – Napoli

Home, Berlin, dealing with the necessary steps that will allow me to have, albeit only temporarily, the false impression of financial security.
The photos from Geneva are still in their undeveloped film form and the films are still in my…

Short update from Geneva

We made it! After almost having to delay the exhibition due to the university’s mishaps (read: unprofessionalism), the photos went up as planned on saturday afternoon ready for a short and quiet vernissage.
Now I am here for the rest…