End of British Sector at Water's edge
October 1988 | ||
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| With our class' only British element in front of it.... Behind this river lies the GDR and the wall... Many who tried to swim over to the West were killed in gunfire.... | ||
Still standing
October 1988 | ||
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| The Berlin Wall..... It was depressing enough for me to stand in front of it laughing.... A year later it was gone.... | ||
Reichstag in a divided City
October 1988 | ||
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| Also see the picture with me standing here in the same position many years later.... The wall just starting behind this building, which the Nazis burned down in 1933 and which before that was Germany's center of democracy. After reunification it is now the official seat of the German parliament. | ||
Europa Center
October 1988 | ||
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| In Berlin up on the Europa-Center.... Maxi and myself filmed all this with Super 8.... | ||
A photographer's worst nightmare
July 1995 | ||
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| Actually some of the photos from the Reichstag here are digitally repaired.... This one shows the damage of the damn photolab that processed my slides. They destroyed one entire film with a rip through its center... I never screamed so much in a store and was so angry. At first they even claimed it was my fault and then they conceded and offer me a replacement film. All I wanted was my photos in their full quality.... | ||
Self-portrait
July 1995 | ||
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| In order to prove that I was at the Reichstag Wrapping of Christo, I took my photogenic sunglasses and asked this Australian girl, if she would wear them, so I could make a photo of me and the Reichstag. As you can see on her face, the athmosphere at this place was just perfect! Thousands of friendly people from all over the world gathered at a historic site turned pop-art. | ||
Time changes....
July 1995 | ||
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| I wanted to have the same picture like the one that I shot in front of the Reichstag in 1995... Same pose, such a different situation... Then East Berlin was sealed off, with the deadly wall between the two worlds in a divided city.... Now the city and country was reunited.... and the atmosphere in front of the Reichstag was one of peace and prospect.... | ||
Juli and the Reichstag
July 1995 | ||
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| Another view of me.... A smile with an audience in mind. | ||
Wrapped....
July 1995 | ||
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| In 1995, the Hungarian artist Cristo came to Berlin and wrapped the former and the future German houses of parliament in silver fabric.... People from all over the world came and rested in front of this huge sculpture.... | ||
IFA
29 August 2003 | ||
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| The big European exhibition for Consumer Electronics | ||
Video Server from Thomson
29 August 2003 | ||
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| Looks like a mixture of a genetically experiment gone wrong. iPod and Oysters... | ||
Good showcase
29 August 2003 | ||
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| SACD is a competitor to our DVDA. This is a great image of how SACD did a good job at IFA.... All you need to know is the album cover and understand the look on the guy's face.... | ||
Back to IFA
31 August 2003 | ||
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| I went back to IFA in Berlin and at night I took photos of the Reichstag... | ||
New Dome of the Reichstag
31 August 2003 | ||
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| After they rebuilt the Reichstag (shortly after Christo had wrapped it) they built this impressive dome on top of it.... | ||
Flag and Reichstag
31 August 2003 | ||
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| ... Long exposure.... | ||
Brandenburg Gate
31 August 2003 | ||
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| A famous landmark of Berlin - it was not accessible for 50 years as it marked the border between East and West.... | ||
Difficult Photo
31 August 2003 | ||
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| When I started taking this photo, I was stopped by security as the Saudi Royal Family arrived with 30 cars and buses and some hypernervous security guard assholes started aggressively pushing me away. It is a public square and I should be able to take photos and I didn't want any of them on my photo anyway. I waited and made some calm marks that their pea brains could make no reaction to and then shot this photo. The guy in front drove me home - he was way cool and commented on how idiotic the guards had behaved... | ||
Sony Plaza
1 September 2003 | ||
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| Sony built a massive plaza in the middle of Berlin at the Postdam place. | ||
Sony Plaza
1 September 2003 | ||
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| With the exhibition center and cinema.... | ||
Alexander Platz
1 September 2003 | ||
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| On the East side.... | ||
Galeria
1 September 2003 | ||
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| The ugly former Eastern Alexander Platz. The Galeria was the Jewel of East Germany. It had all the riches you could buy if you were member of the Communist party.... Now it is a normal department store.... | ||
TV Tower
1 September 2003 | ||
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| At night... Nice lightshow... After that I had dinner at the Hackesche Hoefe after a taxi driver recommended it to me.... | ||
Gedaechtniskirche
31 August 2006 | ||
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| The famous church at the center of the Kurfuerstenstrasse in Berlin. Partly damaged in the war, it was partly rebuilt... | ||
Bluray Booth at IFA
5 September 2006 | ||
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| With Malwina distributing Tattoos... | ||
Karo and Nic
5 September 2006 | ||
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| Doing booth duty with fake tattoos (in her case) and for Samsung (in his case)... | ||
O2 Party
5 September 2006 | ||
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| At IFA, O2 hosted a great party. So many people from all over the booths came after IFA closing time and without anything else to eat... the party started... | ||
Nico and Florentine
5 September 2006 | ||
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| Two Bluray hosts at the party... | ||
Free Beer
5 September 2006 | ||
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Malwina and Karolina
6 September 2006 | ||
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| Distributing Bluray... | ||
...Tattoos
6 September 2006 | ||
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| Well, fake Tattoos. | ||
Uhm....
6 September 2006 | ||
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| ...Random moment at IFA.... A documentary on Hitler from the Discovery channel was on for about 30 minutes with images from Triumph of the Will. | ||
The future starts here....
6 September 2006 | ||
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| ....well, this was after Silversmurf had left... That was the nickname she gave herself... | ||
Japanese Restaurant
6 September 2006 | ||
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| A flower in the toilet... | ||
Special Japanese Style
6 September 2006 | ||
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| For each of these sauces, there is a parallel tray where the waiters put great tempura. So you dip the tempura into the tray corresponding... The sauces were mustard, salt, soy sauce and a chili sauce. Really great! | ||
This freaked me out...
2 September 2007 | ||
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| Walking around at IFA this year taking a break from Blu-ray work, this really freaked me out, since it reminded me so much of the Korean War Memorial. | ||
Field
2 September 2007 | ||
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| Really quite strange, but photogenic exhibition | ||
Confused Cold Dummies
2 September 2007 | ||
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| As I said, this reminded me of the Korean War Memorial. | ||
The brilliant innovation that is:
3 September 2007 | ||
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| Pages from Ceefax - still going on, since MHP died its grizzly death. Weird to see it promoted again, though. | ||
Beware!
3 September 2007 | ||
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| Of the Trolleyman! At IFA now for the second year the same three horror visitors for people answering questions showed up, the Panasonic Groupie, the guy with the wart and the Trolleyman... | ||
Posters
3 September 2007 | ||
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| Fifty of these Vodafone posters plus some in the hall in 20 meter high posters accompanied me every day, confusing me a bit giving me too many memories. | ||
Sunset
3 September 2007 | ||
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| over Alexanderplatz.... | ||
Concrete
3 September 2007 | ||
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| Kind of looking nice with the concrete and warm sunlight.... | ||
Hochhaus
3 September 2007 | ||
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| Was fun to take these photos.... | ||
Galleria
3 September 2007 | ||
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| ...and the television tower in the setting sun... | ||
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