Why I love photography

11. Juli 2026

Photography opened a new door inside myself.

Through photography, I got to know myself better. When I started to dive deeper into photography, I realized so many things I like, that fascinate me, or that I want to explore. It’s like photography and everything around it opened a new door inside myself that leads me closer to what truly feels good and authentic to me and keeps opening more and more doors every time.

I also got to see sides of people I hadn’t seen before. Looking through the lens is kind of magic; it’s like a zoom into different parts of a person’s personality and can work as a mirror.

For me, photography is like a therapy session, and my camera is the tool in different ways. The easiest way to explain it is probably that I often had, and still have, to get involved in probably unpleasant situations to take my pictures. Which is good to do. It’s about overcoming uncomfortable situations, overcoming fears, and growing.

I found a fascination I didn’t know I had before and had always been searching for. For years, I felt like I was missing a creative outlet, which I then found in photography, where I finally feel I belong.

I started to see Berlin, or big cities in general, with different eyes. I look at, and am looking for, little things, invisible moments, and dirt in funny constellations. And with that, it became much easier - and even enjoyable - to deal with the dirt, the crowded places, and the noise.