It would be wrong to say these photographs of the British miners' strike of 1984–1985 were the product of a chance encounter. They were taken because it is a subject that lies close to my heart. I have had strong ties to the UK mining community ever since my earliest childhood. I was born in Llanelli in South Wales in 1960 and spent the first five years of my life there — a circumstance that continues to shape my identity to this very day.
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Are we Jewish Russians? German Jews? Both? Many emigrants from the former Soviet Union were looking for a new home here - and had to find a new identity. This book shows fascinating photos of arriving and adapting in foreign Germany.
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As a young photographer Michael Kerstgens comes to Mühlhausen. "I had never seen such a city before," he says. And so he takes unbiased photos of the people between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unity.
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The pictures Kerstgens took more than 25 years ago in Moscow in the streets, in shops and while visiting various institutions show the harshness, desolation and powerlessness, anger and despair of the discouraged people.
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1983, Trotting race track Gelsenkirchen/Ruhrarea in Germany.
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