November 2020

Why actually photojournalism?

With the reproducibility of images at the beginning of the 19th century and the invention of roll film, photojournalism also became increasingly important. Where previously heavy equipment had to be brought in, mobile and flexible photojournalism was now possible. Photojournalism became a permanent institution at the latest with travel and war photography. In the long …

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How much do images influence us? – A question of ethics

… or the eternal question of what is right and wrong? Through a Facebook post of the Leibnitz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, I again became aware of an exciting topic that has occupied me even before I found my way into photography. It is about the ethics of images, or rather photos in photojournalism. …

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