Fotostrasse is a travel blog focused on bringing cool people to different places. It’s written by 2 Brazilian friends living in Berlin surrounded by three crazy cats.
Fotostrasse started as a photography project by Marcela Faé and Felipe Tofani. Our idea was to inspire people from all over the world that live in Berlin and don’t really know the city.
Our idea was to mix our passion for photography together with the fact that, since we never lived in Berlin before, we needed to explore where we decided to call home.
We started everything with photo meetups, but Fotostrasse became more than just a photo meetup really fast after we started getting invitations to explore other cities and so we decided to transform the project into the travel blog you all know.
With our blog, we can document our trips and explorations around the world and share our experiences with our readers.
Our first blog trip started right after we started blogging. Umeå was our first destination but we didn’t stop there. Bari, Polignano A Mare, Castellana, Alberobello, Dresden, Poznan, Viena, Bratislava, Porvoo, Helsinki, Manila, Belo Horizonte, Tagbilaran, Panglao, Oslob, Baguio, São Paulo, Wroclaw, Cebu City…
Media Mentions and Awards
Our work has been all over the internet and, below, you can see some selected links and places where we have been featured.
August 2021 – We are featured on 10 Reasons We Love Berlin at Head Roam
January 2021 – We were quoted and our pictures appeared on Times of Israel about locations from the Queen’s Gambit
December 2020 – We talked about working in Berlin with our friends from Alemanizando.
June 2020 – The Brazilian Newsblog TERRA À VISTA! mentioned us when it comes to Dark Locations around Berlin
August 2019 – The Washington Post mentioned what we wrote about Bowie playing in Berlin back in 1987
July 2019 – PM Press featured some of our photos on Gabriel Kuhn latest book “X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety”
May 2019 – The Guardian featured us when they talked about Leninplatz in Berlin
May 2018 – Local Germany relies on our Twitter account to show some signs of the housing crises in Berlin
November 2017 – The Brandenburger Tor in Kaliningrad seems to be spreading around on Instagram.
October 2017 – Our Kaliningrad architecture pictures were spread around. This one is from Kaliningrad.
October 2017 – One of the gates of Gdansk on Instagram.
October 2017 – ICU Architecture posted one of our pictures from Kaliningrad on their profile.
October 2017 – We were chosen as one of the top travel blogs to follow.
September 2017 – Felipe did an interview with Record TV, a Brazilian TV Channel, about his life in Berlin and you can watch it below.
September 2017 – Our picture from Praia dos Carneiros was featured on Eu Curto o Nordeste.
August 2017 – SampaLovers featured one of our pictures from Copan on their Instagram.
August 2017 – One of our Kreuzberg pictures was on #featurefriday at Awesome Berlin.
July 2017 – The Guardian Cities Instagram page chose one of our Copan pictures as a feature on São Paulo.
July 2017 – Sampa Lovers featured one of our pictures from Copan on their Instagram account.
February 2017 – Fotostrasse was featured as one of the best blogs of 2016 by Hello Travel.
February 2017 – Awesome Berlin added us to their Top Berlin Travel Blogs list.
January 2017 – Bondinho Oficial featured one of our pictures as one of the Best Views of Rio de Janeiro.
January 2017 – One of our pictures from the Warschauer Brücke was featured on Instagram in Berlin.
December 2016 – We visited Český Krumlov Castle and our pictures were featured on the Visit Český Krumlov Instagram account..
December 2016 – The guys behind Hello Travel named us one of the top Europe Travel Blogs of 2016 and we are so happy about it.
October 2016 – We talked about Urban Exploration with the people from 360meridianos.
September 2016 – Our experience with “Must Love Festivals” is now a book
July 2016 – We were responsible for Germany’s Instagram account, the @germanytourism
May 2016 – Traveling with cats isn’t simple but Marcela explained how she did it at pink Pangea.
April 2016 – What we wrote about Rüdersdorf was a feature in an article about the series Homeland at the official Brandenburg travel website.
March 2016 – Marcela Faé gives tips about travelling on a hangover. Yeah, quite useful!
March 2016 – Marcela Faé talks about overcoming the fear of writing at pink Pangea.
March 2016 – Marcela Faé is representing Berlin and Germany at Digital Nomad Girls.
February 2016 – Fotostrasse talked to Alemanizando about David Bowie and Berlin.
December 2015 – Another photo award, this time from San Francisco Chronicle and Eyeem.
October 2015 – What we wrote about The Lake Bodom Murders was featured on the Thinking Sideways Podcast.
October 2015 – We Are The Mighty wrote an article inspired by our march through Russia with the ‘Immortal Regiment’
September 2015 – The Italian newspaper Brescia Oggi mentions our visit to the city and what we did during Blogville Lombardy
September 2015 – Marcela won the prize for best food photography, the Food Porn Awards given by Eyeem and Berlin Food Week
August 2015 – We got a mention from Deutsche Welle Travel about what we learned on our first 1.000 days living in Berlin.
July 2015 – We took Nick and Margherita to see Berlin and they wrote 7 Alternative Berlin Insider Tips
July 2015 –The 15 #Berlin Lovers you should follow when visiting Berlin on GowithOh
July 2015 – Fotostrasse was mentioned on Local Germany
July 2015 – Weird things you can see on your travels on annaeverywhere.com
June 2015 – Instagram takeover at Visit Turku
June 2015 – Where to eat for cheap in Berlin on 360meridianos.com
June 2015 – We were included as a reference blog for Berlin and Germany on joaoleitao.com
June 2015 – Chicken or Pasta told our story about Bohol in the Phillippines.
May 2015 – An interview for Finnair’s Blue Wings magazine about the beautiful Porvoo Archipelago
May 2015 – Nightlife in Bucharest on Travelers of Bucharest
May 2015 – Yara Coelho mentioned Fotostrasse as one of the top bloggers that you should follow in 2015
April 2015 – Our tips about Porvoo were featured on Visit Helsinki
April 2015 – Visit Berlin like a local with voyagesetvagabondages.com
April 2015 – Our visit to a Martin Schoeller exhibition in Berlin is featured at Pristina.org
March 2015 – The Brigade featured some of our pictures from the Poznan Army Museum.
March 2015 – We took Kathrin to explore Blub Berlin and she wrote about it on luminoucity.net
March 2015 – Some of our Helsinki pictures appeared on Viagem Criativa
March 2015 – Our Helsinki from Above story was featured on helsinki-in.com
February 2015 – Sofia Zetterqvist featured Fotostrasse as one of nine travel blogs you should follow online.
February 2015 – Herrankukkaro talks about our visit there.
February 2015 – NBE Finland Photo Challenge with Momondo where we won the best picture taking during #NBEFinland
January 2015 – Visit Turku mentioned Fotostrasse in their story about NBE Finland.
January 2015 – Life Hacks for Berlin on Young Germany
January 2015 – Helsingin Sanomat mentioned us in their story about Matka and NBE Finland.
January 2015 – Turum Sanomat, a newspaper from Turku, mentioned us on their cover!
December 2014 – Our winter tips were featured on Young Germany.
November 2014 – Our story about our favourite things to do in Porvoo is added to visitporvoo.fi
October 2014 – We took Gregory Martins to see Berlin in a different way.
September 2014 – We won the Big Blog Exchange 2014!
September 2014 – We are a part of this short guide to Puglia!
September 2014 – Our walk from Berlin to Poland was featured on Young Germany.
September 2014 – Our visit to Porvoo and the camera that went down into the sea was featured itavayla.fi
June 2014 – Slanted featured our pictures from the Lettering versus Calligraphy exhibition in Berlin.
May 2014 – Viagem Criativa talks about the tour we did at Siemensstadt
February 2014 – Our trip to Umeä was mentioned on Viagem Criativa
Since early 2014, we have visited more than 25 countries on three continents and we are only just starting. Above you can see what we wrote about all these places.
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