Berlin Wall, 20 years later
Nov. 9, 1989 6:53 p.m. “Therefore…um…we have decided today…um…to implement a regulation that allows every citizen of the German Democratic Republic…um…to…um…leave East Germany through any of the border crossings . . . That comes into effect…according to my information . . . immediately, without delay.” – East German Politburo member Guenter Schabowski, who inadverently announced [...]
From the Archive
Someone recently asked me what was my most memorable experience as a photographer. Hands down it came early in my career some 20 years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall, with it the border of East and West Germany and eventually the reunification of the two countries into one. I moved to the West [...]