Emil Eichinger

Emil Eichinger was born in Munich in 2003. After passing his Abitur in 2022, he began an internship with Michael Jochum, where he learned to work with visual language. Since 2023 he has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover, focusing mainly on journalistic photography and portraits. His current project looks at the impact of climate change on the Alps, in particular thawing permafrost and its consequences.

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Stories by Emil:

What holds us together

The Blatten landslide: when permafrost makes the Alps unstable.

When warming sets the rock sliding: how climate change is putting entire high-mountain communities at risk.

After dark

Sleeping better: sleep researcher Thomas Penzel’s rules.

Good sleep starts long before bedtime. An expert explains what really matters for a restful night.

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Traces

The neighbour nobody knew

A stranger’s bicycle in the cellar, a faded letterbox – and between them the life of a man who is suddenly gone. Who was he?

Advice

Polaroid emulsion lift: how to make little works of art with minimal effort.

Bored with your pictures? With the emulsion lift technique, you can turn Polaroids into small, unique works of art with very little effort. Explained step by step.

Final projects

Body donation for medical school.

Julia Bellack’s Bachelor’s thesis is about future doctors in the dissection course.

Work

New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices

New Work didn’t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.

A young man with light brown curls sits on a folding chair against a bright orange background. He wears a burgundy jumper over a light blue shirt. He isn’t wearing proper trousers, but colourful socks with a comic-strip pattern. His legs are crossed. Beside him stands a white three-legged coffee table with a grey plant pot and a pink mug. He looks intently at the laptop on his lap and wears wireless earbuds.

Collecting

Staging mortality: two photographers in a coffin

Two photographers lie down in a coffin and photograph each other. What sounds like breaking a taboo is an exploration of commerce and ritual – and of the question: is this allowed?

Power and control

‘The Taliban won’t change because of sanctions’

Julian Busch spent months living in Afghanistan as the only German journalist there – and explains why pressure from outside achieves little.

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