VietNamNet Bridge – There will be 176 photographs from global cities by photographers from the OSTKREUZ agency in Germany coming on display in the exhibition “The city: Becoming and Decaying” at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi from August 29 to September 14.

A photo by Germany’s OSTKREUZ agency will be on display in Hanoi - Photo: Courtesy of Goethe Institute in Hanoi.

The show features photo reportages of 22 cities. The 18 photographers of the German agency OSTKREUZ were on a quest to discover ‘How are people living in Tokyo and Manila, Lagos and Las Vegas, Berlin, Minsk and Gaza?’

They have concentrated their personal impressions into photographic essays – a one-off long-term project. What we see in the cities is not only that they are places of hope for the future, but that they also seem to perish under the waste and chaos of the world. All pictures present as a whole: the city of the future.

That city is the origin of civilization, a melting pot of cultures, mentalities, religions and ideas. Each day around the world almost 200,000 people move from the countryside to the cities, looking for a better life, security, freedom and prosperity. The city offers great opportunity, but also presents great risks for each individual in the form of poverty, criminality and anonymity as well as the blatant contrasts which shape many huge cities today. According to the exhibition, the city is the future of the world, a place which determines how people will henceforth live together.

OSTKREUZ photographers Jörg Bruggemann and Ute Mahler, will lecture at the exhibition and conduct a workshop at the Goethe Institute.    

Source: SGT