Berthold Steinhilber Photography

Colle della Boaria at the northern section of the Ligurian border ridge road in Italy.

Portfolio und Werkschau des Fotografen Berthold Steinhilber

“If I could tell the story in words,
I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera”

Lewis Hine - amerikanischer Fotograf

Landscapes

Photographs about the relationship between man and the landscape – how we live with and in it, how we use and change it, and how it shapes us.

Sankt Gotthard Pass, Switzerland

The Lightworks

In these series, I photograph the traces of our civilisation from different eras and illuminate them with a very unique light.

Swazey Hotel in the ghost town Bodie in California

Projects

In these series, I photograph the everyday world that surrounds us and try to show through photography that slightly different ways of looking at our surroundings are possible.

Professor Michael Butter ist Experte für Verschwörungstheorien

Portraits

Portraits are important - examples I have photographed and helped develop for magazines, companies, foundations, research and culture.

Alpenpässe Buch Cover

current Book

Book about the landscapes and history of the Alpine passes. Second book together with Eugen E. Hüsler, awarded with a German Photo Book Prize 2025/2026.