Full Description
The Cold War is over - yet signs of
it still exist. For forty years, the Iron Curtain divided the countries
of Europe into East and West. The arms race was unleashed, nuclear
fallout shelters were constructed, and everyone braced for the worst.
Dutch photographer Martin Roemers (1962) spent ten years in search of
the traces of this period, travelling through the countries of former
enemies on both sides of the line. He explored and photographed
abandoned underground tunnels, former barracks, rotting tanks, and
destroyed monuments. His photographs, which are presented here with
essays by H.J.A. Hofland and Nadine Barth, are a stark and moving
document of this era of hostility, deterrence politics, and the arms
race - and also serve as an appeal for future peace.
Text in English and Dutch.
