Burkhard Riegels, who learned his profession as a craft photographer in the purely analogue era, began early on to devote himself to pictures of people, portraits and documentation. For over forty years, he worked in his own studio, and on projects while he was travelling – was always amazed by the diversity of the characters portrayed. In his most recent books, Wälderstimmen and the Libreria Acqua Alta – a portrait/photo book about the legendary bookseller Luigi Frizzo in Venice – that amazement becomes tangible. Together with his wife, Riegels has been running the ART TEMPTI Gallery in Karlsruhe for fifteen years.
