Diaries: Berlin Winter 2009/2010

Personal / 2009/10 / Berlin

Berlin winters – the leaden sky. Despicable beauty.
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The Perfect Circle
Typologies 02: Beijing Olympic Site Construction Workers

Personal / 2007 / Beijing

With the Beijing Olympics having become a major instrument to demonstrate the rise of the new superpower China, this series focuses on the people behind the spectacle: the poor migrant workers constructing the new Olympia. They are essential to the economic boom in China and yet, irrevocably on the losing end.
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Diaries: Berlin Winter 2010

Personal / 2010 / Berlin

With spring lurking just around the corner, a final farewell to winter.
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15 Minutes
Typologies 01: Popstars

Personal / 2003 / Berlin
Published in Style and the Family Tunes / Berlin

Reality TV took over in Germany with the sucess of Popstars, a casting show training and selecting our supposed future pop starlets. At the first open casting, the applicants have 30 seconds to sing an excerpt a cappella to get into the second of five stages before appearing on the show.
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Stasiland

Personal / 2005 / Berlin
Published in Block / Tel Aviv
& Ein Magazin ueber Orte / Berlin

The Ministry for State Security of the former GDR, or Ministerium fuer Staatssicherheit (MfS) in German, more commonly known as the Stasi, was the official security service of East Germany and widely feared as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence agencies in the world. At its demise in 1989, it had more than 91,000 employees, with an additional 174,000 unofficial informants, approximating around 2.5% of East Germany's population. Apart from its official headquarters, the Stasi owned thousands of buildings and apartments, in almost every street of all major cities of the GDR to sustain its unprecedented machinery of control and espionage. These buildings now blend seamlessly into the German landscape, partly deserted, partly used for residential, governmental or commercial purposes. Only few of them indicate the sinister history that took place behind their walls.

OTS
Freienwalder Strasse, Berlin Hohenschoenhausen
Employees: 1080
Laboratory for Criminal Technology
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