Wall art as social commentary,
social backdrop,
a continuation of Berlin's long history of self examination...

Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.

More of Berlin's open air art,
and just part of the city's artistic free for all...

Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.

And everywhere bouquets of street art...

The art galleries of the streets and alleys around Hackescher Markt, Berlin.
Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.

Empty and roofless industrial buildings,
almost empty during the day,
explode throughout the night as restaurants and night clubs...

Berlin's version of industrial renewal...

Steps from Warschauer Strasse in Friedrichshain, Berlin.
Minolta CLE,  21mm F4.0 Voigtlander, Kodak Ektachrome VS 100 film.

Sunday along the wall...
Families, lovers, the young,
all,
just hanging out,
along East Side Gallery,
Berlin's open air art walk...

Minolta CLE, 21mm F4.0 Voigtlander lens, Kodak Ektachrome VS 100 film.

East Berlin...
The architecture of utility,
of intimidation,
of the bland,
and of propaganda...

Image 1, 1950's subway tiles, still being used at Alexanderplatz.
Image 2, A timeless bureaucrat entering the Nazi Era Luftwaffe Headquarters Building, (re named I am sure.)
Image 3, Soviet Era apartment block with more modern adaptations.
Image 4, East Berlin's highest structure and biggest irony, a communication tower.
Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens.

Berlin's constant struggle with the heaviness of it's past,
seems ever renewed,
as new federal money pours in
as the city renews itself as the capital  of modern Germany.
And now freed of the more recent political dead lock of it's symbol,
the rapidly disappearing Berlin Wall...

Image 1, The East German Parliment Building with it's 'Worker's Paradise' mural.
Image 2, A largely untouched East Berlin lane.
Image 3, The huge and now re used Nazi era Luftwaffe headquarters building.
Image 4, Omnipresent construction cranes rising over a section of the Berlin Wall.
Image 5, A Baroque Palace on Museum Island.
Nikon D600, 28mm-70mm AFD Nikkor lens