Berliner Fernsehturm

Photographed in Berlin around 2005, this view of the Fernsehturm began as a quiet act of attention: a Hasselblad, medium format black-and-white film, and that unmistakable needle of modernity rising into the sky. The tower is pure East-Berlin futurism—equal parts promise and surveillance—yet on film it becomes something softer: a memory with sharp edges.

After developing the negative, I scanned and edited it, then printed the image in black and white on FineArt paper. That’s where the process turns: colour enters only after the photograph already exists—almost like a reversal of the usual logic.

The print goes through a “reverse analog” developing stage, an act of sophisticated studio alchemy. FineArt paper is gently bathed in tinted water, letting pigment seep, bloom, and settle into the fibres like a slow dye–a process that required patience. The result isn’t a digital overlay but a physical stain—part photograph, part atmosphere—so each print carries the same Berlin moment, yet becomes its own, subtly unrepeatable version.

The price includes 5% art tax.