CASH ONLY

[Field study 002] Berlin PIN-terminals

Berlin loves cash.

Or at least likes the idea of loving cash.

“NUR BAR.” Cash only. You see it taped to bar windows, handwritten near kebab counters, muttered by bartenders around 2 in the morning while a drunk tourist from Manchester digs through his wallet hoping coins somehow appeared there since the last time he checked.

Which explains these machines.

Scattered all over the city. In strip clubs, train stations, smoky bars where nobody seems especially concerned about modernity or ventilation. Quiet little boxes glowing in the corner, waiting to convert your bank account into beer money at three in the morning.

After a while, you start noticing them everywhere.

After a while, I started photographing them.

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Not everything deserves an essay.

Some things are better left as they are.

A row of old cars parked outside a bar in Berlin. People sitting silently facing the sea in Barcelona (edition 001). PIN-terminals glowing in an empty train station because somebody, somewhere, forgot Germany still runs on cash.

These “Field studies” are photo reports. Small collections of things I noticed long enough to start photographing.

No big conclusions. No real agenda.

Just field notes from the road.

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There are worse ways to spend a Sunday morning.

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