Die Mauer, Oktober '89

[Pete Askew]

Ages ago I did promised to dig some of these out, so…

The Brandenburg Gate from the West.

The wall south of the gate.

Artwork on the wall.

Potsdamer Platz - the trams were running a bit late!

The view from Allied checkpoint Charlie (there was an East German guard in that tower taking my picture with a Whopping great lens!).

Nikon FE + Nikkor 20mm f1:3.5 ais / Nikkor 105mm f1:2.5. Either Ilfochrome or Agfachrome.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I'm glad you did dig them out. Seems so long ago now. Hard to believe they put it up in the first place. Good shots, and a good record.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks, Rob. It was rather strange going through them.

 

[Steve Boykin]

WOW! I just love #2 and #3. The colors are especially effective as are the compositions. It really creates an ambience I'm having a hard time putting into words but find absolutely fascinating. Or as Stanley Kubrick once said: "Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it as in the feel of it."

 

[Brian Moore]

I guess the Stasi must have had a dossier with your picture in it, Herr Askew. Very fine documentary images.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I have to agree with Brian and the rest up above. Thanks a lot for sharing Pete. Another example of political stupidity.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks all. I often wonder if that picture exists somewhere.

Those are my favourites too, Steve. I have more and I will scan them properly at some point - these were just photographed on the preview panel of the projector.