A playful approach he says you only have to look im crushed the shops are at the right moment. His photos show peoples everyday life they dont takes place on the street. Is very determined to move in the global south of the world but also in the in the global north and did not make a distinction between the kind of polarities that we otherwise are forced on the communities politically socially. People and moments everything seemingly casually captured. Day i can be is here with me in the studio welcome and thank you so much for coming in to convey im captivated by this title of your of your exhibition because tell me more about it these 6 songs swirling gracefully in the taut air because despite the fact that were talking about pictures here air and breath and breathing is very very important to work very very important 6 songs to 6 themes of the exhibition each team in one room and i chose. This title to try to stress to visitors to have not only a visual aspect of my photo photographs but if they really look at them carefully theyll hear something that you talked about singing and how it ties in very much to this idea. That you have a wandering being a wanderer through the world. Thats very much a part of your artistic method youve made it into something of a philosophy. I call myself actually of the loss of philosophical photographer the idea is. In moving well constantly engaging with our environment the. What is immediately around us and its responding to it so the environment. We still have to have to acknowledge the environment some very very. Acute about this and youve even compared it to a dance now there are of course when youre on your wandering missions there are shots that you dont take perhaps out of out of respect or what is that that guides you not so much out of respect i was trying to be respectful everywhere i do go its more a choice and so i some images some themes really be in the core out to meet others not so strong but i try to be aware of all these different. Sounds coming towards me ok so its a very auditory work as well for you know you love big cities speaking of sounds especially megacities and we see a number of them in your exhibition lagos cairo bamako a lot of the african megacities but also places like berlin and chicago so what is it about these cities that is so compelling and what binds them together with unifying them i mean i grew up i was born in a small place so oxford in england but i love big cities and is the buzz the vibrancy the dynamism dynamism which really calls out to me which i tried to respond to some constantly trying to see trying to here try to also if i may say so into its feel. One whole section of the exhibition is devoted to africa to berlins african quarter which i didnt even know really existed its actually just next door to us here in berlin in the district of reading whats your take on the African Diaspora here into. And how has it changed the city and perhaps even the people in it in the time it been here. The african germans especially. Germans have become much more. So was the word i dont know how to say that they really want to get their message across more now lets discrimination listen to us or against a more forceful about their role and you very much but at the same time the african courted in itself is a very very conflictual concept because african quarters were always in the colonies and this was where actually the natives africans were supposed to live but the african quarter here wasnt meant as that it was a residential area started 120 years ago before that somebody wanted to set up a zoo there with human beings and said but now its then afterwards where the beginning out there it really became a what you call it a residential area they kept the. Idea of the theme of africa so they called ministries with african names and now its a thriving place that you return to again and again. You are a recipient of germanys prestigious for instance good to medal back in 2016 you give master classes quite often to younger artists and the younger generations and you told me i think youre off to tunisia very soon whats your main message to those younger people what is it from your vast experience we talked about this just before coming in here that you like to give as a photographer i always stress get to know your camera get mill your instruments and literally like a musician play with it every day you know play on it play with it so that constantly working working working you begin to find your own vision your own voice and you become a master at that instrument eventually eventually if you persist very very badly mastered yourself. Never still a journey and every. Day i can be your photographs are on show at the ball here in berlin until the 17th of may thank you very much for coming in and sharing some of your artistic process with us and these wonderful wonderful how did we and good luck with all the best with all your future projects i know theres still many thank you. Well to moving pictures now and it was in july 29000 that iranian director mohammad was sentenced to a year in prison it was the latest in a series of restrictions that has forced him like his colleague and i he to find ever more ingenious ways of making films his winning in absentia of the golden bear here in berlin this past weekend shines a light on the power of creative resistance in his homeland but go to trail goes to how microsoft know the year another iranian winner of the golden mohammed rush to find a filmmaker and to make is no evil and was not allowed to travel to his daughter who also stars in the film picked up the prize. Obviously im very very overwhelmed and happy but the support and at the same time im very sad because this is for a filmmaker who couldnt be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody. And it seems that this is for him. The film deals with the Death Penalty and how people can retain their integrity while living under a repressive regime. Its the 3rd golden for an iranian film in just 10 years the golden bear for the best film goes to. One with a separation in 2011. It was. 21st. He won the big prize for taxi tehran a film he also appeared in he was also prevented from attending and had his niece pick up the prize. The 2nd iranian film this year has been on also tackled the Death Penalty in massoud. Shes Young Knights of forgiveness merriams fate will be sealed on a bizarre t. V. Show shes been sentenced to death for murdering her husband but could be pardoned on the show. Because were pretty sure. If you had spent years with. One of my other police going to shows like this really exist in iran this may be a sad time exaggerate for effect the film is also a portrait of women in the country paying tribute to their strengths. If you dont feel that. The film successfully shows how women from different social classes backgrounds hamelin and education are very active in one way or the other. The film is jew for release in iran the makers hope the success of the iranian film and the Building Owner will give it. A lot of very strong cinematic voices coming out of iran and of course kudos to the belly nala for making them her 12th finally this weeks tip for german books in english translation bears the any magic title maybe esther author. Endeavors to bring her familys fractured past to life and the result is a haunting exploration of how stories can sometimes be all thats left of history. How well do you know your family tree are there any secrets stories no one wants to talk about and do you really want to know about them. Maybe esther is a collection of stories about author culture Patrol Mission to uncover the past no one in her Eastern European jewish family ever told her about her relatives who were murdered in the holocaust. I no longer understood how i ever could have imagined that i had been spared somehow i knew that my polish relatives had all perished i was the all siblings his mother segment hello there family how else could this have ended but i had never thought about. Culture petrovsky i was born in ukraine but she originally wrote the book in german a language she started learning in her mid twentys you can feel how shes searching for the right words to describe her familys experiences with war displacement the holocaust and soviet gulags a lot of the places shes looking for in maybe esther no longer exist most of the time she says theres nothing left to see just stories to tell so who is this Esther Esther may have been cut off sky as great grandmothers name but no one knows any more for sure and that pretty much describes the book. Starts each quest with a hunch or a doubt and then looks for witnesses who can fill in the blanks she doesnt always get an answer but she swears that nothing in the book is made up. Maybe esther is an unusual book about the holocaust and about the authors family whom her storytelling brings back to life d d d d. 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