Eastern Photographers

In a poetic journey through time, female photographers reveal what life felt like in the former GDR.

Original title: Ostfotografinnen
Duration: 86 min
Release date: 2006-11-10
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Three East German female photographers talk about their experiences making art in the East, and what it was like to work during time when every photographer working on their own in the GDR had entire photographic works and book projects hidden away in drawers, certain that they would probably never be shown publicly.

Documentary

Ostfotografinnen

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