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.

JJ Beeme's SoulScape video 'Desatino' uses Mexico photos taken bv Ralf Steinberger and Gabi Breitenbach. Available on YouTube.

Zeitungsrtikel der Tageszeitung Münchner Merkur über den Menschen- und Reisefotografen Ralf Steinberger.

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.

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

Ralf Steinberger's journal article on combining photography with travel and on the particular interest of capturing religious rites.

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

José-Joaquín Beeme's video art project 'My World' uses Ralf Steinberger's street portraits. Available on YouTube.

Ralf Steinberger's solo photo exhibition at the Amtsgericht Wolfratshausen near Munich lasted from January to Sepbember 2020.

The proceeds of the sales will help build a carpenter’s workshop to get underprivileged young people in Kenya onto their own feet.

Solo photo exhibition "Die Welt ist bunt, und es ist gut so" in late 2019 at Hinterhalt Gallery in Gelting, South of Munich.

Photos from the Munich Oktoberfest 'Beer Festival', showing interesting characters, colourful traditional Bavarian clothes, good mood, ...

I just love Spanish tapas, both for the food and for the very sociable (and loud) way of eating. People often stand at the bar or cluster...

In the Coccarde Camarguaise, the bull does not get harmed physically. The toreros' task is to remove some strings from the bull's horns....