cover her own family's faith during the holocaust becomes the moving memoir called maybe best of. all the title of his exhibition reads like poetry 6 songs swirling gracefully in the taught air but it's visual poetry and images that can create so masterfully the british nigerian photographer captures those fleeting moments of life all over the globe to show us just how similar we really are. the beach in lagos nigeria. photos by. him be the london born nigerian has lived in berlin for 30 years. as work has already been shown of the document in the car song but this is his 1st show in berlin. dark images of big city life in africa and europe are can be has

a playful approach he says you only have to look i'm pressed the shots are at the right moment. his photos show people's everyday life that they don't take sprang on the street. is very determined to move in the global south of the world but also in the in the global north and to not make a distinction between the kind of polarities that we otherwise are forced on the community politically socially. people and moments everything seemingly casually captured. i kinda day i can be is here with me in studio welcome and thank you so much for coming in. i'm captivated by this title of your of your exhibition. taught arabic despite the fact that we're talking about pictures here air and breath and breathing is very very important to work very very important the 6 songs the 6

themes of the exhibition each theme for one in one room and i chose war i composed this title to try to stress to the visitors that i have not only a visual aspect of my in my photo photographs but if they really look at them carefully they'll hear something that you talked about singing and how it ties in very much to this idea that you have of wandering being a wanderer through the world. that's very much a part of your artistic method you've 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 it's responding to it so the environment knowledge is to have to have to acknowledge the environment some very very. acute

about this and you've even compared it to a dance now there are of course when you're on your wandering missions there are shots that you don't take perhaps out of out of respect to what is it that guides you not so much out of respect i was trying to be respectful everywhere i do go it's more a choice of some images some seems really be in the core out to meet others not so strong but i try to be aware of all these different. no sound is coming towards me ok so it's very auditory work as well for you know you love big cities speaking of sounds especially mega-cities and we see a number of them in your exhibition labels 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 i want to try to respond to some constantly trying to see trying to here trying to also if i may say so into it feel. one whole section of the exhibition is devoted to africa to billings african quarter which i didn't even know really existed it's actually just next door to us here in berlin in the district of reading what's your take on the african diaspora here in berlin and how has it changed the city and perhaps even the people in it in the time that you've been here. the african germans especially . germans have become much more. so what's the word i don't know how to say it they really want to get their message across more now less discrimination listen to us or against a more forceful about their role in q. very much but at the same time the african courted in itself is a very very conceptual concept because african quarters were always in the colonies

yes this was where actually the natives africans were supposed to live but the african quarter here wasn't meant as that it was a residential area started 120 years ago and before that somebody wanted to set up a zoo there with human beings and said but now it then after was where the beginning out there it really became what you call it's a residential area they kept the. idea of the theme of africa so they called many of the streets with african names and now it's a thriving place that you return to again and again. yes. you are a recipient of germany's prestigious for instance good to medal back in 2016 you give masterclasses quite often to younger artists and the younger generations and you told me i think you're off to tunisia very soon what's 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 always stress get to know your camera gets will your instruments

literally let the musician play with it every day you know play or mates 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 very truly eventually if you persist very very bad to master george. journey and every. day i can be your photographs are on show. 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 and good luck with all the best with all your future projects i know there are still many thank you. all 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 where 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 go to. film goes to microsoft and all the year another iranian winner of the golden mohammed to find a filmmaker 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 i'm very very overwhelmed and happy but this is war and at the same time i'm very sad because this is for a few may care who couldn't be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody. under team 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. it's the 1st golden for an iranian film in just 10

years. the golden bear for the best film goes to. one with a separation 2011. 21st . on the big prize for taxi tehran a film he also appeared in he was prevented from attending and had his niece pick up the prize. a 2nd iranian film this she has been on the. death penalty in massoud but she's young of forgiveness merriam's fate will be sealed on a bizarre t.v. show she's been sentenced to death for murdering her husband but could be pardoned on the show. if

that's really it would. be joining shows like this really exist in iran follow this media satire don't exaggerate for effect the film is also a portrait of women in the country paying tribute to their strengths. if you can feel the thought that it. the film successfully shows how women from different social classes backgrounds hamleys and education are all very active in one way or the other. the film is jew for release in iran. the makers hope the success of iranian film and the building owner will give it a boost. a lot of very strong cinematic voices coming out of iran and of course kudos to the belly nala for making them heard well finally this week's tip for german books in english translation bears the any magic title maybe esther author.

endeavors to bring her family's fractured past to life and the result is a haunting exploration of how stories can sometimes be all that's left of history. how do you know your family tree are there any secrets stories no one wants to talk about and do you really want to. no about that. maybe esther is a collection of stories about author cutter patrol scales 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 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 twenty's you can feel how she's searching for the right words to describe her family's experiences with war displacement the holocaust and soviet gulags a lot of the places she's looking for and maybe esther no longer exist most of the time she says there's nothing left to see just stories to tell so who is this esther esther may have been great grandmother's name but no one knows anymore 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 doesn't 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 author's family who her storytelling brings back to life. ready ready ready ready ready

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