Stefan Geens

Here’s my year in review, mainly for the benefit of my future self. Apologies in advance for the selfie-ness of this post.
May 2015: The 2015 sailing season — my second ever — was spent on the yacht Alexandra, a step up in size from 2014. With her I would do my first proper sailing excursions during the summer, with nobody but myself to rely on when captaining the boat....

In April, I took a road trip with Eurof and Matthew, from Geneva to Bologna, in time for the 20th anniversary reunion of the year we spent at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. From the top of...

In February, work took me to China, my stay there bookended by a weekend each in Beijing and Shanghai — time enough for some long  walks with my new go-anywhere camera, the minuscule Panasonic Lumix GM1 with the legendary 20mm F1.7 lens.
Beijing: This was my first time back since I last lived here three years ago, so I wanted to visit all my old haunts, to update my mental map of the place. The pollution reading stood at 500+, so the hazy beige hue to every view became a photographic...

If you visit Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm before March 2, you’ll come across 100+1, a wonderful retrospective exhibition by Elliot Erwitt, the iconic 20th century photographer.
When I visited, I was intrigued by a fleeting reference in the exhibition’s introductory text to a documentary attributed to Erwitt — The Glassmakers of Herat....