Book Release and Cover Reveal

On Sept 12, I’m excited to announce my new book "Letzte Stimmen" or "Last voices" will be published by Callwey, a premier German publishing house based in Munich. 320 pages of tribes, rituals and traditions from around the world. High-end photos and interesting stories from my expeditions to some of the last remaining tribes. The book will be published in German and English.

PORTRAITS OF A VANISHING WORLD

“This book is more than a photographic volume—it is a quiet yet powerful appeal to recognise cultural diversity as a shared human heritage. Over more than three decades, renowned photographer Michael Runkel has visited communities on every continent whose ways of life are increasingly threatened by climate change, globalisation and land dispossession. His photographs portray people whose identities are inseparably linked to landscape, ritual and community—dignified, authentic and on equal terms.
Across generously designed chapters, a visual journey unfolds: from the rituals and communities of Africa to the nomads of the Siberian tundra, the body cultures of South and Southeast Asia, the celebrations of Oceania and the Indigenous peoples of South America.”