Gemma in Front of The Wall, Berlin 1990

Berlin, July 18, 1990. Gemma is standing in front of the construction site for Roger Waters' The Wall – Live in Berlin, wearing a Pink Floyd The Wall T-shirt. Behind her, the enormous stage wall is being assembled.

The photograph was made in 1990, when the crossed-hammers gesture was associated with the anti-fascist imagery of The Wall. Its later appropriation by the Hammerskins gives the photograph an unintended historical footnote that obviously wasn't part of the picture when I took it.

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