Originally posted on Instagram (www.instagram.com/barbara_wolff_berlin), the Berlin images of the Metropolis series are collected in a photography book and published by LUNIK BERLIN Verlag. With a foreword by Marc Barbey (German, English, French).
Wolff’s photographs are not about classic city views. They are about a subjective view of Berlin in the present time. The pictures tell of the inhabitants and their urban environment. Patterns of the city emerge, networks of relationships between people, architecture and (artificial) nature. The multi-leveled layers of the photographs take the viewer emotionally on a journey through the city. The focus resides in the transformation of the city, provocation and chaos. It is about secrets, as well as visions. We visit train stations and Berlin’s bodies of water, graffiti walls and full shopping malls. But we also see the famous (empty) Berlin squares and stand in front of closed doors of techno clubs in the Corona year of 2020.
Berlin, not easy to describe with words, becomes a tense picture story in “Metropolis, Berlin”. For people interested in photography and Berlin-enthusiasts. For those who live in Berlin, as well as those for whom Berlin is a place of longing.
Barbara Wolff (*1951) grew up in the GDR and studied photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. She moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985. Until today she works as a freelancer for the Munich-based specialist camera manufacturer Linhof. Her freelance photographic work has been shown in Berlin (2017, 2020), Arles (2018), Vendome (2019), Geneva (2019) and Belém, (Brazil, 2019) and is represented in international collections. The photographer lives and works in Berlin.
136 pages, 21 x 28 cm, 104 black and white photographs in triplex print,
thread stitching, hardcover with linen
ISBN 978-3-9822385-0-0
