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.

LE MANI DEL MESTIERE - Mostra fotografica di Ralf Steinberger con ritratti di commercianti. Bar Emiazico a Sesto Calende (VA), Italia.

LIFE UP CLOSE street portrait photography exhibition by Ralf Steinberger at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.

Ralf Steinberger won the photo competition 'Bavaria Unseen - Shades of Blue and White'. Short-listed photos are exhibited at Wunderlocke.

Artist JJ Beeme created a musical animation using expressive studio mood portraits taken of him by Ralf Steinberger and Vidas Daudaravičius

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.

Art exhibition "Finds from Italy" with photos by Ralf Steinberger & Gabi Breitenbach and terracotta-wood statues by Antje Schmuck. 5/6 2021

'Where the dead go' is a zine by Ralf Steinberger showing photographs of religious and cultural rites and cults surrounding human death.

Ralf's street photography zine on voyeurism, stalking, ethics and the excitement felt while taking street photos of unknown persons.