Victor S. Brigola Photography

it was thomas hoepker, who unfortunately died in 2024, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2024. this picture was taken in january 2024 in reutlingen and shows the major problem germany is currently facing. the decline of the wirtschaftswunderland, illustrated here by the example of kaufhof. unfortunately, most of the republic believes that economic growth is the only way forward and fails to understand that some things simply no longer work. but what could work would be to focus on less, but better.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2023. i visited a very good and old friend in vilanova i la geltru in march and had a lot of time to explore this little city with my camera. the carousel in the blue hour was such a lovely situation i really enjoyed to came along.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2022. i had the opportunity to come to paris for a day and do what i love to do. just wander the streets and find interesting objects to photograph. see what i found in the marais.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2021. still some kind of lockdown, i am heading to my beloved swabian jura, trying to write my book, but then i went out because the weather turned bad in june to take pictures for my book. love the light.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2020. i took it in klagenfurt between the first and the second wave. for me it was one of these very rare peaceful moments of the covid 19 year, being in holiday, but the old man with his crutch and the “zu vermieten” sign shows the reality of this very special year and especially what the future will bring from it.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2019. i took it in basel on an ordinary saturday morning. i love the scenery and the slow mood which is a real expression of switzerland for me, the watch, the confiserie and the woman inbetween with her two dogs tapping on her phone.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2018. i took it in my hometown stuttgart on an ordinary day in june. it shows how poor stuttgart, one of the richest cities in germany, everyday is.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2017. i took it in rome, italy while i was staying there for an archaeological meeting.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2016. i took it on a quiet morning in portopollo, corsica. three wonderful women and one adonis.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2015. i took it by night in the marais in paris, some months after the charlie hebdo shooting and some months before the paris terror attacks.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2014. i took it in flims/switzerland on the 5th of october 2014. it shows the lag la cauma on a very quiet, beautiful and sunny sunday morning.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2013. i took this picture in front of the hospice on the simplon pass on a trip from switzerland to italy on the 24th of march 2013. the reason that this is my picture of the year 2013 is not, that i love my car that much, the reason is that i started to tumblr at the beginning of 2013 and this picture got more than 2.ooo notes (likes and reblogs) since i posted it on alwayswonderingandwandering.tumblr.com. for me this is a very interesting example how the use of pictures changed in the last years from printing them in magazines, books or whatelse to reblog and copy them nowadays without having it physically. for me, as a photographer coming from analog times, it was a long and sometimes hard process to accept that, but now i love it to tumblr. this is more than a new era, i guess.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2012. i took it in mirandola on the 2nd of june 2012, just three days after the severe earthquake in the emilia romagna region.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. this is my picture 2011. i took it through the window of my car on the 26th of august 2011 at the susten pass in switzerland after a little thunderstorm came down.

it was thomas hoepker, the famous magnum photographer, who once said “you take one, maybe two pictures a year”. i took this picture on the 21st of november 2010, a lazy sunday morning in vilanova i la geltrú – spain