April 2023
Snaps from April 2023, including a visit to the fair in Cologne, and a trip to the Eifel (“Bunte Kuhꜛ”), including snaps of this year’s cherry blossom in the Eifel region.
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Groß St. Martin is one of the most iconic Romanesque churches in Cologne, alongside the world-famous Cologne Cathedral. Its towering presence over the city’s...
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The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyō, a Japanese organization founded by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
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Snaps from October 2024, including a trip to Frankfurt where I visited the Martin Parr exhibition at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. I was in Frankfurt for a...
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Snaps from September 2024, including a visit to Pützchen’s Markt in Bonn, one of the oldest and largest folk festivals in Germany. I also had the chance to v...
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Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to the 19th century. The term ‘ukiyo-e’ translates to ‘pictures of the floating world’...
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Snaps from August 2024, including a visit to the wholesale market, the botanical garden (Flora), the Kartäuser Church, St. Aposteln, St. Kolumba Madonna in d...
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The tradition of kakemono and emakimono is closely related to other forms of Japanese narrative art, such as byōbu (屏風) and fusuma (襖). Byōbu are folding sc...
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Emakimono, or Japanese handscrolls, are a captivating form of narrative art that emerged during the Heian period (794-1185 AD). These exquisite scrolls combi...
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