Silent witnesses in Berlin


  • Photographer
    Raffaele Tuzio
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Raffaele Tuzio
  • Date of Photograph
    march 2011

With its wide, open spaces, “holes” in the urban fabric that have yet to be filled after its rapid reconstruction, Berlin still seems to be an incomplete city. Symbols of memories, statues, which should be integrated with the city’s bold, modern architecture and cosmopolitan spirit, at times appear to be emerging into the open space like isolated figures: silent witnesses with nobody to tell their story to, lost souls in search of answers, rather than narrators of the past. In their separation from the rest of the city, and in light of the sporadic nature of the human movement that surrounds them, they are evocative of the rift in the history of a city that has been destroyed, divided and rebuilt time and time again.

Story

With its wide, open spaces, “holes” in the urban fabric that have yet to be filled after its rapid reconstruction, Berlin still seems to be an incomplete city. Symbols of memories, statues, which should be integrated with the city’s bold, modern architecture and cosmopolitan spirit, at times appear to be emerging into the open space like isolated figures: silent witnesses with nobody to tell their story to, lost souls in search of answers, rather than narrators of the past. In their separation from the rest of the city, and in light of the sporadic nature of the human movement that surrounds them, they are evocative of the rift in the history of a city that has been destroyed, divided and rebuilt time and time again.

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