In spring 2025, I traveled through Azerbaijan with my brother — from the wind-swept streets of Baku to remote villages tucked behind the mountains. This post captures the spirit of the journey through street portraits and everyday scenes: coppersmiths at work, shared smiles at roadside cafés, men playing traditional games in the streets. Most conversations were non-verbal, but the warmth of the encounters spoke for itself.

Photographic memories of a trip to Ukraine's capital Kyiv before the Russian-Ukrainian war started. People, religion, architecture, ...

Photo diary of our road trip in March 2022 through the ex-Soviet country Georgia, focusing on abandoned buildings and Soviet architecture.

Photos of the exciting and attractive Italian city of Bologna showing its monuments, its long history and its street life.

Ralf Steinbergers Fotoausstellung 'Menschen und ihre Kulturen' in der Stiftung Gute-Tat in München (Oktober 2020 - Mai 2021).

The new album on my website shows photos of the Northern-Spanish city of Bilbao: night life, people, museums, architecture, food.

Photos of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, built by architect Frank Gehry, and of some of its art installations.