How can Berlin be grasped without consideration for its history? The city can be visited both in the present and in the past. Photography has actually always been particularly sharp at conveying the fascination for the German capital’s activity, energy and reconstruction, and its fractures from the past. Photographer Patrick Tourneboeuf invites us to a contemporary journey initiated in 1988 through the City…
Berlin offers an occasion to plunge into yet another reality of these great European cities whose mutations, mundane , unusual features and traces of history can be restituted through photography.
Photographer Patrick Tournebœuf first travelled to Berlin in 1988 at the age of 22. Strolling from East to West, he photographed the wall unaware of its forthcoming collapse the following year. He returned to the city in 1990, striving to gaze at the memory of the instant, the visible stigmas of the city that tell of its recent history. Years went by, and so did history.
Extract of the article by Vincent Marcilhacy
