About me
Attentive, never arranged.
Andrea Funk is a Berlin-based photographer and content creator. She started andysparkles in 2013 out of a love of writing, fashion, and photography; Instagram followed in 2014. The subjects widened to travel, interiors, and personal stories, while photography became a profession of its own.
Publishing regularly gave her a second discipline alongside shooting: looking back, selecting, and deciding what belongs together. That link between making and editing still runs through the work.
Close to
what matters.
A portrait starts with giving someone time to arrive. Andrea uses conversation, humor, and small changes in posture to keep faces and bodies moving instead of fixed. She looks for soft light, a background that does not compete, and an angle that feels right to the person.
Her direction stays practical: loosen the shoulders, turn the head, change the expression, keep moving. The camera can be professional or a phone; her writing consistently puts looking and light ahead of equipment. Airbnb guests repeatedly mention clear communication, flexibility, and feeling at ease.
Her Berlin portrait walks begin in Friedrichshain and move through places she knows well. A reflection in glass, a plain wall, a shopfront, or an industrial edge can carry as much visual weight as a landmark. For visitors, the walk also opens a local view of the city.
In travel photography, Andrea waits for the person, bicycle, or change of light that completes a frame. She thinks in sequences—a place, a person, a detail—rather than forcing one perfect image. Patience, selection, and a point of view do most of the work.
The city portrait and the travel sequence do not need the same subject or finish. What connects them is attention to the way a person changes a place, and a place changes the picture.
Approach — Place. A place has its own language. A reflection in glass, a plain wall, or an industrial edge can carry as much photographic weight as a landmark.
Approach — Direction. Movement makes posture visible. Direction stays practical: loosen the shoulders, turn the head, change the expression. The portrait remains personal instead of becoming a role.
Approach — Closeness. What remains is often the unspoken. Character matters more than a polished surface. The search is for soft light and a background that leaves room.
Approach — Patience. Light needs time to arrive. While travelling, Andrea waits for the person, bicycle, or change of light that completes a frame. Patience does most of the work.
