DYou first have to stand up to a look, it cuts through marrow and bone. It’s José Pedro Prados Martín, formerly a matador, now director of a bullfighting school, photographed by Timm Kölln, who looks at us so intently from the cover of our June magazine. For the cover story, Paul Ingendaay pursued a question that is often forgotten in the heated debate about bullfights: who are the animals? And what is the secret of the legendary fighting bull?
And it’s not the only cover image that has a certain mysticism about it that seems almost mysterious: In December we show the extraterrestrial beauty of our universe on the cover – the images from the James Webbs telescope are truly of astronomical size.
And then there are those moments that seem to have been captured accidentally, but say a lot about a person, their emotional world, their attitude towards life. This is how Jens Gyarmaty succeeded with the entertainer Kurt Krömer, whom he casually shows smoking in Berlin – what else?
But now you are asked: Which of the 14 magazine covers from this year do you like best? Vote: