50 Jahre Mauerbau – Berlin Wall anniversary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images from an ongoing series exploring Berlin’s evolving landscape, documenting how Germany commemorates the vanished East and the country’s separation during the cold war.  In a city ever-changing, where layers of empires past are piled on top of one another or simply disappear, efforts to hold on to history vacillate between earnestness and denial, romanticizing and academic analyzing, conservation and neglect – and in between the plaques and public art displays, commercial opportunism finds its niches where ever possible.

 

 

August 13th, 2011