Honorable Mention for Ralf Steinberger at the 2026 US-American/International ReFocus Awards in the field of Architecture.

Vier Kunstschaffende – aus Norditalien, München und Altötting – zeigen in der Ausstellung Traum und Tristesse Werke zwischen Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit. Fotografie, Malerei, Zeichnung und Skulptur erkunden die Polarität von Phantasie und Zerfall, Ästhetik und Morbidität. Die Gegenpole berühren sich und öffnen neue Assoziationen zu Leben und Vergänglichkeit.

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.

Photo diary while the brothers Wolf and Ralf travelled through the Baltic countries Latvia and Lithuania in August 2021.