Siegfried Lautenbacher. Born and raised in Munich, at home in Munich and in Venice.

As a young man I wanted to become a priest and began to study theology; in the end the pull of business proved stronger. At twenty-five I founded my company and ran it for more than three decades. What kept occupying me there was how people work together — and what raises them up or keeps them small.

It was this question that led me to Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology, which understands a person from his relationships rather than from the single self. Today I advise and coach people and whole organisations, and I pass the craft of Individual Psychology on to those who are learning it. Alongside that I am writing a larger work, a connectivist anthropology. It carries Adler's Individual Psychology forward, for a time in which technology and acceleration are remaking how we live together. This series is a side path off it.

That Venice runs through the texts and images here is no accident. The city in the water teaches you to stand on uncertain ground, and it has for years been my place for street photography. The photographs are at lautenbacher.photos.