If You Come to Berlin

I still remember my arrival in Berlin by car at night – how I drove past the illuminated Brandenburg Gate, on my way to Kreuzberg and Bergmannstraße. A friend I met at the International Center of Photography had invited me to come to his place. As a regular Kreuzberger, he was out and about, of course, so he left the key to his apartment at Cafe‘ Atlantik where I picked it up. It was upstairs on the third floor, in the rear of a neighbouring building. I looked around. Shower in the kitchen, toilet a few steps down in the stairwell. It was completely quiet. What a peaceful place compared to the never-sleeping New York. The next morning, the windows were wide open and the summer wind blew gently through the small rooms. “Non, je ne regrette rien” by Edit Piaf sounded across the courtyard from an apartment near by. It was a good start in Berlin. But would I be able to take photos here?

2017
41 Berlin photographs in black and white and color. Taken between 2003 and 2013. Landscape format. A project supported by VG Bildkunst, Bonn. 44 pages, 300 copies (sold out)