Archive • Jörg Colberg - CPhMag.com • Buttondown

November 28, 2025

In front of the house I live in, there’s a big field. I don’t know who the owner is, but apparently, they rent it out to local farmers who then grow...

Complicated Feelings

November 9, 2025

The 2025/2026 edition of my masterclass is scheduled to begin in a week. There still are spots available. If you have been thinking about joining, now is the...

Sometimes, things can’t be helped.

October 19, 2025

On Friday, I’m going to travel to Germany for personal reasons. I am not looking forward to the one week I’ll be spending there. But obligations are, well,...

Nothing happened today

September 28, 2025

To start things off I want to announce a second iteration of my 9×9 masterclass. This is an online masterclass in which 9 photographers meet up with me over...

A tooth for an eye (no really)

September 13, 2025

I’ve always thought that nothing good can come out of the idea of “eye for eye, and tooth for tooth”. Looking through history, this sentiment mostly seems to...

The Number One Email In Heaven

August 23, 2025

There are going to be a bunch of videos in this email. So if you’re not into that kind of thing, please scroll down a bit. The other day, I needed a little...

It's a trap

August 9, 2025

You’re at the end of a work day that might or might not have been spent writing technical reports for government bureaucrats, and there isn’t any juice left...

The wisdom of the crowd

July 10, 2025

Untitled, from Fault Lines When I photographed what would become Fault Lines, I walked past this building every day. Every day, I imagined living in the...

Zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero two percent

June 28, 2025

There should be a word for all the things that you wish you had known in the past. I had to think of that after reading an article about a man I saw on TV...

My chatbots will be talking to their chatbots

May 18, 2025

Hannah Höch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (1919) The past few months, I had been thinking...

The Place of Shells

April 27, 2025

How do you recommend a book without giving away too much about it? I guess what I will do is to provide some information that I found on a German website....

a sort of voyeuristic ventriloquism

April 6, 2025

A little while ago, I came across this really good article by Toby Buckle about masculinity: We have never before had more ability to develop ourselves as...

here I am, compiling again

March 16, 2025

The other day, I thought I would go about writing these emails differently. Instead of compiling them in one go, I would add material to a draft as it came...

Ni ni ni and Ba dee ba dee ba dee

February 22, 2025

Today (22.2.) is cat day in Japan because you’d pronounce that date ni ni ni, and that’s the sound cats make. Well, in Japan anyway. I only know a cat’s...

The Cloak of Invisibility

February 1, 2025

I was going to finish writing the following to publish it on CPhMag.com. But then I had second thoughts: I don’t actually want to waste more space on my site...

Goodbye Instagram!

January 28, 2025

There never was going to be that good moment to leave Instagram. Or rather, there have already been too many moments when I should have abandoned the site,...

Have you heard about my lead balloon?

January 19, 2025

I’m pleased (and by “pleased” I mean: aghast) to note that my new book has been taking off like a lead balloon. Truth be told, the one thing I had not been...

we are destroying history and culture to fuel the empire

December 22, 2024

For the larger part of this year, I was working on what has now been released, my second photobook (or rather photo-text book). It’s entitled Fault Lines,...

a little wound that took days to heal

November 29, 2024

I just realized that I haven’t written an email for this Mailing List in a while. I’d like to say that I don’t know where the time went. But I know exactly...

A book is a beginning, not an end

November 2, 2024

Before I get started — I got a bunch of goodies for you — a little bit of housekeeping. First of all, after I sent my last email I received an unusually high...