Woman Examining the Berlin Wall, East Berlin 1990

East Berlin, July 1990. One of my favourite photographs from the trip because nothing dramatic is happening. The woman isn't posing for me, there isn't a crowd and nobody is waving a flag. She's simply standing there with her hand on the Wall, looking at it. We get to wonder what was going through her mind.

The Wall had gone from being an almost impenetrable physical and psychological boundary to something people could walk along, touch, photograph and chip away at.

This photograph is part of my Berlin 1990 story, "July 1990, The Last Summer of East Berlin" → Read the full story