Berlin 2009. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall which I photographed in 1989 for the Independent Newspaper I returned to photograph the changes that have happened over the past 20 years..The former death strip at Bernauer Strasse and Eberswalder Strasse. The east is on the left and the west is right of the main road. It was here on the night of 9th November 1989 that I photographed the first breech in the wall. I returned the next day to photograph the thousands of east Berliners who walked through the gap to the west..When I returned in 2009 I was told that the apartment I used as a viewpoint was occupied by a Stassi agent and that listening devices were installed in the roof void. It must be said that his flat was very well appointed and the coffee was great..ED Note See B&W image from 1989..COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN HARRIS © 2009.07808-579804
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