Portals of Berlin
Different districts of Berlin, different days, different film - what unites these photos is the feeling of stumbling through a portal to another reality. Berlin has always been a city of thresholds - between East and West, past and present, the visible and the buried. At Kotti, a graffitied gate writes itself over its own architecture. In the heart of Mitte, a building melts into its own reflection. Tiergarten holds too many figures, standing too still. A portal to the galaxy of existential white rabbits opens up at Hackescher Markt, occasionally. These images were made on film, with all the chance and chemical unpredictability it brings. A way of letting the city show its seams, and what lies beneath them.
Leifur James - Suns of Gold