And here we are! Welcome to my new page showcasing a few projects of the past two years, which I shot exclusively with digital cameras. I know, this is not exactly what you would expect from a website devoted to analog photography in a digital world. But as I recently explained in a blog post, time is the most limiting factor for me at the moment and whilst the digital workflow can still be squeezed into my daily life, the slow and time-consuming analog process cannot. So if you’re interested in what caught my interest photographically over the course of the last two or so years then have fun with the following projects.
FACES
With a bit of phantasy, you can find faces in all sorts of inanimate objects and materials. No matter where I am, my eyes always spot faces or face-like expressions on otherwise dead things like blankets, fruits, cakes and kitchen tools to name only a few. Normally, these encounters are spontaneous and sometimes last only for a short amount of time, so to photograph them I needed a device which is always at hand…my phone. Whenever I see such a face, I can’t help but snap a shot of it. And here’s a small selection of what I found.
PICTURE PAIRS
In March 2025 I attended a Wide Angle Creative photography workshop led by Daniel Milnor and Elena Dorfman here in Berlin. This workshop was packed with all sorts of different commissions given to us over the course of 8 days. It was inspiring, exhausting, intense and one of the most rewarding experiences I had so far in photography. Not only were Dan and Elena fantastic teachers, but also we 7 participants turned out to be a harmonious and warm-hearted bunch of photography enthusiasts, who brought an astonishingly diverse set of talents and photographic preferences with them into the course. When we started our first shoot on a flee market I realised that I was looking for images which may match as pairs later in post. For me this developed into a theme over the whole workshop and here are some of my results.
BLUE
During September/October 2024 I participated in a deep-sea expedition to the Indian Ocean on the German research vessel SONNE. This is part of my professional life as a researcher and curator of marine invertebrate animals at the Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin. It was clear from the beginning, that film was not an option for photography during this endeavour and the only camera – apart from my phone – I took with me was the Fuji XT20 with the 18-55mm kit lens (27-84mm full frame equivalent). One project I had in mind was to take images of the sea and the sky to get a collection of blue images at 47 different spots along the cruise track representing every single day of the expedition. Here is a selection of these images, some of them foggy and almost grey like the famous Sugimoto seascapes, others bright and deep blues like paintings of Yves Klein.
Work in progress – images to follow! June 6, 2025
Light & Grain 