Riding the ropeways of Stalin's impossible mining city.
Hey there. I’m Lars, a writer and photographer from Berlin.
In our visual age it’s important to understand images: How they’re taken and what they mean. What makes them so captivating and sometimes seductive.
I explore how culture, technology, and social norms shape images—and how they shape us in return.
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Controversial Color
In the 1950s, early color photography was widely scorned. Now it’s the default. What happened?
The Woman Who Was Robert Capa
Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.
A Distant, Overlooked Life
Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.
Donald Trump’s Horror Picture Show
Photography of the presidency shows that Trump cares about optics, not visuals.
The Triumph of the Portrait Format
Phones have changed the way photos are taken. Portrait now rules where landscape once reigned. And we’re stuck looking at a vertical world through horizontal screens.
You Can’t Take a Picture of the Northern Lights
Images of the Northern Lights lay the limits of photography brutally bare.
