This year's photokina - like IFA, IBC and other trade shows in 2014 - is all about 4K/UHD. Interestingly, the only ones who didn't get it seem to be the (for now) DSLR market leaders, Canon and Nikon. So it seems appropriate that all my images this year are stills from 4K videos taken with my Panasonic GH4s - go check them out!

Germany may not have become this year's European Champion in soccer - but it's undoubtedly the unchallenged reigning champion in staging the World' biggest trade fairs of our time. Trade Fairs for Fair Trade? The battle grounds in our globalized, neo-liberal economy are the fair grounds in Hannover, Düsseldorf, Berlin or Cologne--and it will surely stay like that for some time to come. A some times humorous, some times critical look at this multi-billion Euro business.

ITB is the World's biggest tourism fair—and a lot of fun to visit!

This year's edition of the World's biggest photography fair is firmly focused on media convergence: filming with HDSLRs, cameras equipped with WiFi connections to smartphones, storing and presenting of movies and images in the cloud. You may also want to check out my video walk around (embedding rights available on request): http://vimeo.com/heimoaga/photokina2012

Frankfurt's 2009 Book Fair is dominated by the rise of the ebook, discussions about guest nation China and the Nobel Prize for Herta Mueller.

Photokina in Cologne/Germany is the World's biggest bi-annual photo fair. You can find a movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkwlq8Q1Rpw

Düsseldorf's boot is the biggest annual fair for boating and water sports in the World.

"Finnland. Cool." Given their opening party, the slogan of this year's guest country is very appropriate, indeed.

With over 500.000 visitors, bauma in Munich ist the World's biggest tri-annual mining, building and construction industry fair, and also the World's largest trade fair regarding exhibition space.