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Of Bankers and Soldiers
Alex Kayser
Alex Kayser’s photographs of Swiss bankers and soldiers for Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace.
Christmas in Bavaria
Jan Bogaerts
‘Bergtesgaden was, for some time, the home town of both Adolf Hitler and Dieter Eckhardt, the father of national socialism.’
Sovinec in Moravia
Jindrich Streit
‘Before the Second World War there were sixty families – most of them Sudeten Germans – and fifty-eight houses in Sovinec, a small village in Czechoslovakia north-east of Brno. Now there are only twenty-six people living in the eight remaining habitable houses.’
In Romania
William McPherson
‘The images of the Romanian revolution – I had seen it on television in Berlin – were still vivid in my mind.’
Children’s Section, Gradinari House
Isabel Ellsen
‘Gradinari House is thirty kilometres from Bucharest. One hundred and fifteen children live here.’
Bolivia, 1990
Ferdinando Scianna
‘Photographing these people I came to realize that their lives are dominated by fear: fear of old galleries falling, of dynamite, of the spirits trapped in the mine, of tuberculosis, of the disappearance of veta (the wolfram seam), of the future.’
Bucharest, 26 December 1989
Léonard Freed
Léonard Freed's photographs of Bucharest on 26 December 1989, in Granta 31: The General.
The Death of Merab Kostava
Patrick Zachmann
Patrick Zachmann’s photographs from Tbilisi, Georgia, in Granta 30: New Europe!
Walled City of Hong Kong
Patrick Zachmann
‘I first went to Kowloon’s Walled City in 1987 with a Chinese friend. I returned there alone in the summer of last year.’