I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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