portrait @en | Christina Felschen

portrait @en | Christina Felschen

Women in front of the camera – and behind it

Why are portraits of women so often limited to their beauty, while men get all the rest – the quirky, the mysterious, the interesting look? My photography class at the Stanford International Center couldn’t care less for these conventions and took portraits of women who struck us as being strong, witty, brave, funny and expressive.

This is a small presentation that I gave on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2016 at the I-Center.

A thousand ways to surround the world

written for the Peace Boat website on Dec 25th, 2012 >>

Cruises can be really boring, many people warned me before I got on board the Ocean Dream to surround the world with hundreds of Japanese people. Well, this one wasn’t – thanks to the people on board. Let me present just 5 out of more than a thousand: the interpreter, the captain’s right hand, the activist, the volunteer and the child.

Cómo ser un colibrí

publicado por Peace Boat el 16 febrero 2013 >> y en inglés >>

Binka Le Breton, autora británica, ha encontrado a su “tierra de leche y miel” en la selva tropical de Brasil. Con su ONG Iracambi (colibrí), un pueblo entero y unos scientíficos voluntarios trata de investigar y restaurar la Selva Atlántica. Pero hay unos a quienes no les gusta que ellos ponen sus intereses económicos pata arriba.

Just be a hummingbird!

published by Peace Boat on February 16th, 2013 in English >> and Spanish >>

The British author Binka Le Breton has found her land of milk and honeyin the Brazilian rainforest. With her NGO Iracambi, an entire village and some volunteer scientists she tries to investigate and restore the Atlantic Rainforest.

“Like a leaf in the wind” – Victoria’s patchwork life

Victoria’s life seemed settled and decided when she was only in her mid-twenties. But the fall of the Soviet Union changed it all.

Hamburg meets Johannesburg – an evening with Joe Thloloe

blog post written during the International Insitut for Journalism’s Summer Academy 2007