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Daphne and Apollo, One Wall 2018, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Berlin: “Daphne & Apollo” mural in Kreuzberg

•   “Daphne and Apollo”, by Francisco Bosoletti 🇦🇷 & Young Jarus 🇨🇦.
•   Commissioned by Urban Berlin for the “One Wall” project in 2018.
•   The mural appears on the south wall of an apartment building in Kreuzberg (Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), facing Gitschiner Strasse and the Berliner U-Bahn Stammstrecke.
•   Characters from “Metamorphoses” by Roman poet and writer Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), written in Latin and published about 8 CE.

Daphne and Apollo, One Wall 2018, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Part 1: original photo, corrected for geometric distortion.

Daphne and Apollo, One Wall 2018, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Part 2: corrected photo converted to monochrome.

Daphne and Apollo, One Wall 2018, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Part 3: black- and white-points reversed in monochrome image.

The mural is located between U-Bahn stations Prinzenstrasse and Kottbusser Tor. If you’d like to see the mural illuminated in natural light, it’s best to visit between 11am and 2pm (when the sun is at or near zenith). In addition to the Google Map below, here is the corresponding view on Open Street Map.

I made original images above on 7 Jun 2026 with an iPhone15; I edited images with Polarr Pro and Preview. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-z1A.

Vienna: space invaders in the capital

Above: WN_31 at the corner of Ballgasse and Rauhensteingasse, 9 July 2024 (P15).

Don’t worry: it’s not 1529, nor is it 1683, and there are no bands of marauders on horseback arriving for a large and lengthy siege. This also does not include anything from outside the Solar System. Instead, this is about a human artist and their little creations sprinkled throughout the Austrian capital city. In fact, I’d claim their “invasion” has already succeeded.

When a wae lad was I, the video game Space Invaders was a revelation, a dawn to a brand new world. The lasting effects snuck into many aspects of life, including the learning, pursuit, and practice of science. The video game as battle to ward off waves of little aliens once required the purchase of a large bulky black console, accompanied by a large bulky black joystick with a big red button. But in the passing decades, the technological leap mmeans that Space Invaders is available as an online game, easily called upon anytime on demand.

In Vienna, the sight of little aliens prompted immediate curiosity, and I’ve spent parts of several consecutive summers wandering the streets to find and chase down the little “visitors”.

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herakut, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, MUCA, Munich, Muenchen, Bayern, Bavaria, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Herakut: big wall art around Germany

Above/featured: “At times the only thing alive about me were those demons.” MUCA Munich – 31 May 2018 (X70).

One of my favourite artists is Herakut, a German duo whose street murals have appeared in Europe and around the world since 2004. Hera (Jasmin Siddiqui) and Akut (Falk Lehmann) use walls and big spaces for their big art with a signature look that includes expressive faces and big eyes, lots of photo-like details, and sharp typography. Their work explores issues such as physical and emotional isolation, maternal relationships, gender and racial equality, and all the things we think and feel lurking inside. But I think their compositions also include long notes and pauses which allow and incorporate vivid fantasy and playful whimsy.

Examples shown below include Wittenberg 2016, Heidelberg 2017, Berlin 2017, Munich 2018, Berlin 2021, Frankfurt am Main 2024.

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Clubhouse Lane, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, fotoeins.com

Street art around the world

Above/featured: Clubhouse Lane, Adelaide, SA – 21 Aug 2012 (450D).

I provide from the following 20 locations examples of street art; some works are permanent, while others are no longer on display. With the “(h)” label, I’ve also highlighted a number of works by one of my favourites – the German artist pair Herakut.

  1. Adelaide, Australia
  2. Albuquerque, USA
  3. Cologne, Germany
  4. Flagstaff, USA
  5. Gallup, USA
  6. Hannover, Germany
  7. Heidelberg, Germany (h)
  8. Kassel, Germany
  9. Konstanz, Germany
  10. Melbourne, Australia
  11. Munich, Germany (h)
  12. Prague, Czech Republic
  13. Salzburg, Austria
  14. Seattle, USA
  15. Sydney, Australia
  16. Vancouver, Canada

As always, images are best seen on the widest screen possible, as the physical size of a mobile screen is simply too small.

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Few and Far, Mud Bay Uptown, Queen Anne, Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

My Seattle: Near and Wide, Few and Far

To mark the third anniversary of the artist collective Few and Far, a group of artists came together in June 2014 to collaborate on a mural in Seattle’s Lower Queen Anne (Uptown). The art shown below covers the south-facing wall of a former theater which now houses the Mud Bay pet supply store and faces a parking lot between the pet supply store and Dick’s Drive-In. Some will no doubt be munching on burgers and fries while they’re looking at furry creatures painted on the wall.

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