Category: Photography

Warszawa w październiku / Warsaw in October

In October 2021, I made several trips to Warsaw to conduct research in the Archiwum Akt Nowych. Equipped with my trusty camera (and sometimes with my GDR-made Pentacon 135mm lens), I photographed not only untold quantities of archive documents but also some of the sights of Stary Mokotów and central Warsaw.

Window on Wrocław

Signs, text, graffiti, posters, and murals in Wrocław’s public spaces.

Wrocławianie

People in Wrocław.

Wiosna / Spring

Wrocław in the Springtime.

Wrocław reopens

It has been an unusual year to do research abroad, as I have spent most of my time in Poland inside my own apartment, “Zoomed out” in front of a computer screen. Travel long remained restricted, restaurants and bars were closed, and public spaces felt risky due to the coronavirus pandemic. Spring 2021 felt like…
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Wrocławska zima / Wrocław Winter

Photos from the Winter in Wrocław, where I have been conducting a research project about the German-Polish border.

Jesień we Wrocławiu / Fall in Wrocław

Starting in September 2020, I moved for a year to Wrocław, Poland, to conduct research as part of my DAAD project, entitled “Working the Border: Policing Labor along the Polish-East German Border, 1980-1989.” Here are some of my first impressions of the city in Fall 2020.

Fridays for Future

Here are a few pictures from different “Fridays for Future” events in Berlin.

Ausstellung zum Gorleben-Treck 1979 im Historischen Museum Hannover

Eine Ausstellung des Instituts für Didaktik der Demokratie, besucht im Rahmen des vom IDD veranstalteten Workshop „Der Gorleben-Treck 1979 und die niedersächsische Landesgeschichte“.

Biking the Border: Basel to Aachen, 2019

Bike trip from Basel, Switzerland along the French-German border up the Rhine and toward the Saarland, then to Luxembourg and back to Aachen, Germany.