Berlin has been my home town since 2017. Probably the most outstanding advantage of living here is the "mix" and entirely different feel of streets and quarters in very close proximity of each other; a walk of hundred meters can transport the explorer into new worlds and spots, into vast parks, alongside waterways and romantic canalls, into alternating lifestyle areas, and also mindsets. The "brutish" architecture, on the whole, is mostly sprinkled out in tolerable quantities in between long roads with 6-storey houses from the imperial period. Dunno how they survived the war - looking at 1945 areal photographs would suggest they must all be gone, but they are still here, fortunately.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment and all this useful additional information - I appreciate it! :)

Thanks for sharing Karin - you’ve got a wonderful “eye” that finds the nice perspectives and contrasts. I appreciate your videos !!

Very happy to see you getting into this style, brutalism and flat architecture shots are my favourites and Berlin seems to be an amazing playground !

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! :) There are still so many more brutalist places to visit in Berlin, so I cannot wait to be back and shoot some more.

Absolutely love this video Karin ! Photos are amazing as always , I really love brutalism photography I hope to see you do more of it !

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate your comment! :) There is one more video planned from my last trip - but I definitely feel like visiting more brutalist places in the future!

Here in Montreal, brutalism was very popular in the 60's and 70's. A most of our metro stations are in that style. Complete with mosaics, burnt orange tiles and sometimes even stained glass! There is also the college where I took my first photo class and a pavilion of the university I went to. Too bad people don't seem to appreciate this truly iconic style.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Interesting that Canada had the brutalism wave a little later as it seems. Thanks for sharing! :)

@StuartWeir

Жыл бұрын

When I went to Montreal in August, I fell in love with the metro! So beautiful compared to Vancouver’s boring metro.

Fantastic work

Another flawless video, it makes me feel nostalgic for my Berlin trip I did in March. Deffo need to get back and experience it like this again!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Hope you will be back soon and manage to shoot some brutalism architecture yourself :)

Thank you! Beautiful photos and great video. I grew up near the Pallaseum and this brought back memories. I used to visit friends who lived there as a kid. I also loved the other locations you took photos at. It reminded me how photos can give you a new perspective on places and bring out their beauty. There is so much to see in Berlin. I now live very far away from Berlin but I look forward to visiting those places on your photo walk again.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

While being there I had to think a lot of about how it must be to grow up in such a place. So interesting to get an insight that you spend some time of your childhood there, thanks for sharing! :) I could not agree more, photography is such a strong tool.

Wirklich super Thema und Erklärungen. Danke!

Berlin and Brutalist architecture + photography =👌 Thanks for sharing Karin and Vince.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment, I appreciate it! :)

great video! ill be in Berlin this weekend for the marathon and I'm certainly hoping to also see some of the brutalist architecture so it was really cool to watch your video first

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, have fun during the marathon! I am sure you will enjoy Berlin, plenty of interesting subjects to shoot :)

The pallaseum was my favourite area of the day. I can’t wait for your next video 🤩. I only discovered Brutalist Architecture this past year. I love how the architecture lends itself very well to photography. Especially black and white. For me anyway ☺️

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

That was definitely also my favourite spot of the day! :) Thanks for your comment, I agree that black and white photography and concrete go very well together ✌🏻

Love Brutalism and all kind of Arquitecure

So good! This is a day of photography I have wanted to do since spending 10 days in Berlin on a family trip 6 years ago, so it was cool to see it! I love the hints of colour that you were able to get, a little unexpected from the usual brutalist architecture images that you see online.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, glad it brought back some memories for you :)

So cool !

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

thanks!

Thanks. That is well done.

Gut gemacht!

Awesome video! I love brutalist architecture and it's really fun to photograph, but there isn't much of it where I'm from. I really enjoyed the photos that have some plant life within the brutalist scenes. The contrast between these two things is so satisfying!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, Reimann! :)

Great music at the start of this. As always the photographs are brilliant.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it! :)

Oh! I really love your backpack and water bottle. 🤣 As always... great video! 🥰

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Haha, awesome compliment! 😂 Thanks for your comment :)

Very good job. Nice video and great shoots. Thank you

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it! :)

I love this just for so many great photos! Very tough to pick up favorite photo as all were so good.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind comment Neerav! :)

Great video, I love Berlin, I can't wait to get back and do more photography. You captured some lovely photos of the Brutalism space!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Todd, I appreciate it a lot. Hope you will make it to Berlin for another photography trip. :) (I love your channel by the way!)

@toddkorolphoto

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka Thank you, right back at you, I always watch out for your videos. ;-)

The gift of film is always a good thing. You have a great friend.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thanks for your comment :)

interesting place and pictures, definitely a place to visit. I am more into black and white but the colour ones do work well.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it :)

Loved it

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I didn't know the concept of brutalism before watching this but totally get it. Aesthetically it calls for demolition of these horrific buildings. But on the other hand the contrast is what makes beautiful architecture stand out. And I'd rather have a few brutalist buildings around than a whole city of boring middle of the road indifferent ones. And it can also become to neat for me. As for your photos, I have to say that you have good eyes! They make interesting impressions of sometimes seamingly dull motives. I like your work - it is very inspirational!

I think it's not a surprise that I'm a fan. Great selection of locations and photos! I also love the Sony Center but have never been happy with photos there, but I really liked a couple of your quite original compositions. Looking forward to the Mausbunker.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing a couple of videos about brutalism on your channel some while back. :) Thanks for your kind comment as well ☺️

Great video!! Thank you.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment :)

Wow! Love so much what you`re doing. Seen all your vids. Now I´m so tempted to see If my T4 still works, in other words buy a battery and film.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks so much for your comment and the support! And yes, you should absolutely do it! Fingers crossed that it works just fine :)

Hi, Karin Always nice to see your photos and nice smile 😃. The label of brutality or brutality design in city design is understandable, but we need to remember in the post war period to rebuild as much and as quickly as possible. The damage from WWII bombing could not be called subtle, and much effort was put into rebuilding, perhaps with funding & help from the Marshall Plan. There was fear that keeping the devastation & poverty in the post war period would be fertile ground for communism during the Cold War, so what we can refer to as ultra modern or brutally displayed concrete was pushed by the politics & fears of that time. It is good to see your work & efforts to photograph this cityscape, because we can miss or overlook these angles and patterns as just big city design. it takes a focused and keener eye to point how this exposed concrete might contrast w other designs in the layout of a city like Berlin. In the U.S., artists and photographers can point to the massive and austere public housing that got built in the early 1960s as part of 'urban renewal'. Impersonal & austere design isn't confined to Berlin. Well done, Karin. Stay safe and keep smiling.

wunderbar, herzlichen dank!

GREAT WORK!!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Well done.

Tolles Video...

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Danke! :)

Nice shoots! Really like this video since I'm in love with photography and brutalism. In 2021, I actually made a one year photo project about the brutalist buildings where I live, Stockholm.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! :) Oh wow, your projects sounds really interesting, is there a way to check it out somewhere?

@emanuel.alvarez

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka I made a photobook about it. It was a personal project. I am thinking about just sharing it for free and I can send you the book in PDF if I get your e-mail. Btw thanks for great and inspiring content!

Nice shots from the buildings.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it! :)

💯 as usual, enjoyed it. Gotta check this area out if I get a chance to visit. Love the retro vibes, a perfect backdrop for street photos 👀

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ivan! Absolutely, I am sure it would be worth to visit again to focus more on street photography in these locations ✌🏻

Great video Karin, looks like you all had a great day! :) My two favourites, one B&W and one Colour, are similar in appearance but taken on different cameras/film stock; time stamped on your video at 10:38 and 10:46 :) London (UK) ‘South Bank’ area has some Brutalist architecture designed in the 1960’s.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Kevin, I appreciate it! :) Oh yes, I have heard that London is also blessed with some incredible brutalist architecture!

I just moved from Berlin to Leipzig and was delighted to see a photography video about Berlin. The Bayer AG building is near my fishing spot (Nordhafen) so I used to walk through it a lot. An interesting building and works quite well with an artistry eyes. Well done!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I had no idea there is a harbour (?) nearby. Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it! :)

Just seen this after recently picking up an Olympus 4/3rds camera. Really enjoyed this video and will watch part 2 now.With too much fear of people I am finding this sort of photography is something that appeals to me. Maybe a project titled ‘built by, but empty of humans’ could be worth doing.along with abstract style there should be enough to photograph for a long time.

Nice episode Brutalism is one of my favorite subjects, cant wait to vist Berlin to do some photo walks, *mystery film looks to be Natura 1600 ;)

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it! I am sure you will enjoy Berlin! :) Hehe, no comment on the mystery film 😉

Love the video, and loved the shots even more! Berlin was my home for five years, and it’s always inspiring to see how a talented eye can find amazing frames in the most known places (Sony center, I’m looking at you! Lol).

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I guess you must have collected a bunch of nice memories over the years in Berlin :) Thanks so much for your comment! ✌🏻

@sprocket_holes

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka I do have many great memories, I see it as my second home :) Looking forward for your next video!

A fantastic video. I have a deep love of Brutalism and actually live in a Brutalist building NE England 1960s style. The concrete might have been mainly raw but there were little touches of colour which were unexpected.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing, I appreciate it! :)

really have a love hate relationship with this architecture style that allows for minimalism photography to shine so well

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I totally understand! I love this type of architecture for minimal photography as well. But on the other hand it's a bit harder to not only shoot "the obvious" images most people would get

In case you somehow make it to London, make sure to check out the "Barbican"...huuuuuge building with apartments, libraries, parks, theaters, indoor-gardens, etc. Really amazing for taking phootographs!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I have heard about Barbican before, thanks for the tip! In case I will make it to London, I will absolutely check it out! :)

Really liked the out of control plants in the first building (bank I think). I'm kind of in the opposite of Brutalism since I moved to Newport. The campus I work on is surrounded by gilded age mansions.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Edward! :) Gilded age mansions sound like the opposite of brutalism indeed - but also like a nice subject matter (in case you can even get that close...).

Great video as always, very interesting architecture! I hadn't heard about brutalism before, I will have to keep my eye out for anything similar in my area. At the beginning of the video I noticed many of the pictures seemed soft/slightly out of focus, and I thought, that's not like Karin to miss the focus! Then I realized my KZread setting was only on 480p by mistake haha oops! I set it to HD and started over, and of course the pictures looked much better :)

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Puuuh, after reading the first half of your comment I was scared I accidentally upload a version with an exporting error - so I am very relieved to hear that it was only the image quality setting on KZread itself! Thanks for your comment :)

I did not know Brutalism was an architectural style, so I something different in my mind when I first read your video title. Surprisingly this architectural is also present in some large cities in Canada but for buildings built late 60's, early 70's. I have on a few occasions photographed those old buildings.

@iNerdier

Жыл бұрын

Arguably it wasn’t, it’s a post-justification/name for what was called at the time modernism. Yes there was a lot of use of concrete in post-war rebuilding but even before then people like Le Cobusier were using it. It just got a lot of attention when there was so many demolished cities that needed quickly replacing.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarification and additional information! :)

I much more prefer B&W to color when shooting architecture, but I like the color photos shown here. My fav shot of the day is at 13:01. Vince also has good eye :)

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Same, I usually prefer b&w for architecture too, but in many places we visited that day color felt more right somehow :) And yes, Vince is a great photographer! ☺️

I attended Simon Fraser University on the west coast of Canada which is one of our country's best examples of brutalist architecture. The campus is on top of a mountain making for many foggy days. The grey-on-grey-on-grey was a bit much, but started my love of brutalism.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a brutalist dream! Also being at a place regularly and seeing it change over the seasons must be really cool. Thanks for sharing!

I really liked the apartments. We have some brutalism on the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park Chicago. Keep shooting!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I imagine that a university in a brutalist style must be pretty cool!

Have you seen much of the brutalism in London? It’s quite interesting especially because it’s interwoven with pre-war, and also “modern” architecture so you get the contrast in context… one of the most interesting forms I find is some of the motorways that are built over rather than through the city creating an almost appropriate usage of brutalism, but also at the same time incredibly overpowering…

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

The last time I visited London was in 2014 I think. Sadly I did not have the chance to get back there recently, but I have heard that it's a really interesting city to explore brutalism. Thanks for the tip, I hope I will manage to travel there again soon!

Voll die coolen spots, du musst unbedingt das le Corbusier Haus auch mal auschecken, meine Freundin und ich waren begeistert

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Cool, merk ich mir auf jeden Fall mal für den nächsten Trip. Vielen Dank! :)

Fun video and interesting to see some of Berlin. Is the city mostly newer buildings because of WWII destruction?

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it :) a big part of Berlin was destroyed and rebuild indeed.

10:38 is my favorite picture 👌🏻

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

@dr.seltsam1975

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka no..Thank you for your posting such awesome contend 😊

Wonderful video!! Can I ask what lens you had on your Leica M6?

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! :) I used a Voigtländer Nokton 35mm F1.4.

Remind me also about Poland this whole space

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I totally get why, I remember a couple of those buildings blocks back in Poland as well.

So cool that you kept parts of dialogue in the backgroud. The German language sounds so brutal. I feel like drinking a beer now.. or some Schnapps :D

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

So interesting, that German sounds brutal to other people haha. Thanks for your comment :)

@dogarucos

Жыл бұрын

​@@KarinMajoka No no, thank YOU for the photos, for motivating and for inspiring us to do photography.

Wow, had no idea that Berlin has still so many remains of brutalism ❤

Being a city that was on the east side of the iron curtain, the whole southern part of my hometown is brutalist architecture. On the bright side, that part of town didn't felt anything in the recent earthquake (5,5) that shook the rest of the town quite a bit...

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Brutalist architecture seems to be rather robust...

Ooh, I clicked on this one fast

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

I'm a fan of the architecture of Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Antoni Gaudi. So you can probably guess what I think about Brutalism.

During the Berlin Photoweek 2 weeks ago, you could actually book a tour through the czech embassy :)

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea, how cool is that! Thanks for sharing, I will check out (or shall I say czech out?) if they have more tours coming up

@nick-w

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka Had to laugh a bit at that joke :D

Very nice shots. Somehow there is a very German look to most of the shots. For someone, who studied German Literature, Language, Culture and History at university, that's a good thing btw 😉 I wonder if that gift you got was a roll of Fuji Natura 1600 - I guess time will tell.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! I sometimes wonder how my videos/photos (or Germany in general) are perceived by non-Germans.

@NPJensen

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka I think it's the subject, that gave the shots that German look, I see in them. In general I see your shots as having a European look (like my own street shots have too). While I'm not German, my German studies - all in the company of Germans have colored my perception of Germany and Germans, I'm sure😀

There was a Brutalist bank building in my home town in East Texas ... they recently tore it down for a Chick-Fil-a. 😑

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Seems like there is something with brutalism and bank buildings - part of the Bayer building was also a bank haha. Sad to hear to one close to you is gone :(

Excellent intro!!! ❤❤❤ Also is Pro 400H? I currently live in a brutalist flat with my Girlfriend. It is quite fascinating to sleep right next to exposed concrete. In japan these used to be known as designer Appartements (not sure this is still true), but brutalism is still a thing here. And fun fact, if you Google for brutalist web design, you can where this term has gone to in the last couple of years 😊

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! :) No, Vince and I both shot different Kodak color films, no Pro 400H. I like watching videos about small living spaces (e.g. "never too small") and have seen a couple of apartments in a brutalist style there from Japan. Really interesting, beforehand I did not know that it's such a thing there. :)

@otherSmallCities

Жыл бұрын

sorry, I meant the film gift you got, it that was a 400pro H. Was the first film that came to mind that one could have gotten “when they were still affordable” 😊 These brutalist flats seem rare, at least they are not often on the market. But they are horrible for the environment. They do not isolate heat / cold well. Not sure if this is a thing with this place (I made a video about it; it’s on my profile) or a thing in general with exposed concrete. Really beautiful, but perhaps the worst for the environment…

I'm 90% sure I know what that gift roll of film is

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

😬

Hey, für die nächste Berlin Tour, zwei Ziele die interessant sein könnten: Corbusier Haus, nahe Olympiastadion und der Teufelsberg mit der ehemaligen Abhöranlage im Grunewald✌🏻 Grüße aus Berlin :)

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Mega, vielen Dank für die Tipps! Check ich beim nächsten Berlin-Besuch bestimmt mal aus. :) Liebe Grüße ☺️

@gentlesfpv

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka sehr gerne:) mir ist auch noch eingefallen, falls du ihm noch nicht kennst, der Fußgängertunnel am ICC (alte Messe) :)

Do I see some Natura...? 🤫

@Brause_Market

Жыл бұрын

I think so too ; )

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Maaaaaybe 🤔

Was the present a roll of Fuji Natura 1600?

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Maybe 😎

@ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka yep not jealous at all

hey, is Kodak Kodacolor 400 discontinued?

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Yes but it's most likely something like older stock Kodak Gold or Ultramax.

I like Berlin. What about check point Charlie?

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Did not fit in thematically in this video. But very interesting spot historically and also photographically!

@NBartrina

Жыл бұрын

But I don't think that Postdamer Place surroundings are Brutalism. It is one of the places I like to visit when I go there. Great place.

Hallo aus Deutschland. Nice shots of a not nice living area in Berlin. I like your style of photographing, composing a common object in the foreground with gray walls in the background. Instead of the neutral colour style if you vlogging cam let the Kodak Gold200 let pop out the colour spots. All in all a area don't findable in tourists guides. The HP is not my favourite. It increases the distress of brutal beton architecture.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! You can actually find a couple of websites online where brutalist places in different cities are collected - but yes, maybe not the typical tourist guide haha. :)

Nice places and pictures! If you’d like to see “true” brutalism you definitely should check out Minsk, Belarus. And better to do this at winter since everything (and everyone😢) is grey. Hopefully war will end soon and two of the last dictators will fall so it will be safe there.

„Drücken - ich bin geimpft“ Was ist das denn für eine Begründung?

great video, how awesome would it be to shoot chernobyl!!

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

It would be indeed - but also a bit radioactive though 😅

Pfannkuchen. Ditt is een Pfannkuchen. 😉

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Nein, nein, nein, ich lege Widerspruch ein! 😬 Ein Pfannkuchen wird wie der Name schon sagt in der Pfanne gemacht und ist flach :D

@baerlinnozzle2958

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka Ditt seh wa hier in Berlin anders. 😁

ICC berlin

@ForceOrange

Жыл бұрын

There is also a Brutalist Berlin map. #JustSayin'...

That was a roll of aerochrome wasn't it?

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Maybe 🤔

Hope you didn’t order the Berliners as „Berliners“ at the Berlin bakery. 😅

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Hahah yes I did with all my heart - I will NEVER say "Pfannkuchen" to Berliner 😂

literally the most normal neighborhood of berlin be like:

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Hahha, that's so true 😂

Plattenbau. Man sieht den Wald 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 vor lauter Satellitenschüsseln nicht.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Richtig 😂✌🏻

You mean "Pfannkuchen" right? 🤭

Now I understand why the architecture of a lot German cities is so bleak, cold and souless. Mind you, much the same can be said of the 50s and 60s buildings in the industrial cities of the UK too. Good photography, Thank you.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

In my personal opinion you see a very harsh contrast between the architecture of cities that were destroyed in WWII and cities that weren't. In the city where I live (Münster) we almost don't have these types of brutalist buildings at all.

@lensman5762

Жыл бұрын

@@KarinMajoka Merciful god. Come to think of it, the menace of the highrise building that started in the 50s in the UK is also the result of this ' Brutalist ' movement. I think it was pioneered by a Swiss-French architect called Le Curbusier and someone called Kahn. I live in Manchester which has a mix of the old and and new. I believe they even wanted to destroy the Town Hall and The Central library buildings that are beautiful Victorian architecture, and build those grey and horrid buildings instead. Madness.

"Journey" in Swahili is "Safari" "Understand" in Africaans is "verstaan" ... "verstehen"

Jetzt müsste man nur noch fotografieren können.

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Ich weiß nicht so ganz wie der Kommentar zu interpretieren ist: Möchtest du gerne Fotografieren lernen oder unsere Fotografie kritisieren? 😂

Photos fook the camera ok

I suspect that many of your images need to be printed...LARGE....very nice/graphic.....

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Stuart! I really love printing and I think it's such an important part of the whole photographic process

@stuartmeador8993

Жыл бұрын

Maybe Leica will be introducing an "M6" of some sort in the near future.. sold my M6 last year a Zeiss Ikon 35mm... fun...

No place for children.

Klingt wie ein Referat in der 5. Klasse 🙄💤

@KarinMajoka

Жыл бұрын

Danke für das Kompliment, in der 5. Klasse hätte ich gerne schon so ein Englisch gehabt ✌🏻