Contact Sheet Print: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989 Framing:Custom White Frame

Contact Sheet Print: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989 Framing:Custom White FrameHaving photographed the Berlin Wall being constructed as a 19 year old, Raymond Depardon found himself back in the city on assignment for the newspaper Libration covering the Walls fall, in late 1989. He made this series of images near the Brandenburg Gate, and while it featured on the front pages of the Financial Times, and Le Monde at the time it has, as he explains below, gained greater value over time. Depardon wrote of the series as you can see

and jovial shop owners

He made this series of images near the Brandenburg Gate

In the preface to The Suffering of Light

In the summer of 1999

Open See tells the story of refugees

African Americans were struggling for civil rights

Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn

Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to photograph Scotland’s largest city: Glasgow

000 images

and musicians and the birth of his jumpology

Daytona Beach

30 x 24 cm)