About this episode

Kersten Luts interviews fine-art travel photographer Nico Trinkhaus about his experiences with aphantasia and the impact on his photography.

How do you become a photographer when you cannot picture images in your mind? In “The Photographer Who Can’t Picture His Own Photos,” Kersten Luts speaks with fine-art travel photographer Nico Trinkhaus about aphantasia, visual memory and the stories behind his remarkable cityscape photography. Nico explains why photographs act as an external memory, how early experiments with HDR photography shaped his style, and how a lightning strike over Berlin’s Alexanderplatz transformed his photography career. He also shares the story of Europe Rising, a long-term travel photography project created in response to Brexit and photographed across Europe at sunrise. The conversation then turns to photography copyright, image theft and PhotoClaim, the company Nico co-founded to help photographers protect their work. Nico discusses licensing, copyright infringement, AI-generated imagery and why photography still matters in an increasingly synthetic visual world. Whether you enjoy landscape photography, architectural photography, videography or are building a photography business, this episode offers thoughtful creative inspiration and practical photography advice for photographers at every stage…

People in this episode

Host: Kersten Luts

Guest: Nico Trinkhaus

Topics covered

• aphantasia
• visual memory
• travel photography
• photography copyright
• image theft
• HDR photography
• creative inspiration

Keywords

• aphantasia
• travel photography
• HDR photography
• photography copyright
• image theft
• Nico Trinkhaus
• creative inspiration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PhotoClaim

Places: Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Europe

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