Keine Ansichtskarten aus Berlin – Vol. 1
Observations in the Ordinary (2011–2018)

This project was conceived as an alternative to the iconic representation of the city. Rather than portraying a picture-postcard Berlin, the images seek to capture a more marginal reality that is often overlooked by tourists and the rhetoric of urban imagery. The series is intended as an evolving archive: an extensive collection designed to fill a postcard rack, comprising images that reject any celebratory function. Some photographs were taken near recognisable places; others arose from daily journeys through residential neighbourhoods; and others still from a slow, aimless drift through the city.

The project focuses on what remains in the shadows of contemporary perception: minimal details, ordinary spaces and architecture without apparent quality. In a visual context that consumes images and meanings rapidly, these photographs invite us to slow down, to linger on an apparently banal everyday life that is capable of revealing its own discreet aesthetic.

Keine Ansichtskarten aus Berlin is an exercise in silent observation. It is an attempt to restore visual dignity to what normally escapes us by opposing the bulimia of the contemporary gaze with a practice of attention, waiting, and presence.