Berlin has grabbed me with its architecture, the beauty of its monuments and the diversity of its districts. The evening, Berlin is transformed into a lighting city, with fantastic and mysterious appearances. It’s a many-sided and paradoxically town, like the ancient and contemporary monuments which form it. Both modern and innovative (Potsdamer Platz, Hauptbanhof), Berlin is still strongly established in its own old history (Reichstag, Brandenbourg Tor) and in its recent past (Fernsehturm, Checkpoint Charlie). The Wall that has stigmatized the city for 20 years is felt at any bend of the town, and its “presence-absence” halos the capital with a particular aura (Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, East Side Gallery). Its memory, still vivid in the inhabitants and visitors’ imaginary, mixes with a certain nostalgia of DDR that invades museum and tourist spots.
What interests me during this series is to show Berlin, symbol of the reunification of the two Germany since 1989, as a magnificent (by it history and its inheritance) and radiating (by its creations and representations) city. I shot it as a poetic and futuristic town which lights Europe as a lighthouse in the night.