Life & English: “The city. From the becoming until the decay” - Photography Exhibition

From 29 Aug to 14 Sep 2013, the Goethe- Institut and the Fine Arts Museum Hanoi present photo reportages of 22 cities around the world.

The city is the origin of civilization, melting pot of cultures, mentalities, religions and ideas. Each day around the world almost 200.000 people are moving from the countryside to the cities, looking for a better life, security, freedom and prosperity. The city offers great chance, but also great risks for each individual: poverty, criminality and anonymity as well as blatant contrasts which shape many megacities today. Although: The city is the future of the world, the place which determines how people will henceforth live together.

The 18 photographers of the German agency OSTKREUZ are on the quest for finding the urban realities of today: How are people living in Tokyo and Manila, Lagos and Las Vegas, Berlin, Minsk and Gaza? Made up of overall 22 cities around the globe, the photographers have concentrated their personal impressions into photographic essays – a once-only long-term project. Shown are cities as places of future hope, but also in a way in which they seem to perish under the waste and chaos. All pictures present as a whole: the city of the future.

OSTKREUZ is the most significant Germanphoto agency. Founded at the end of the GDR in East Berlinafter the model of Magnum it hosts the most import contemporary German photographers. To its 20-year-anniversary OSTKREUZ members conceptualized and realized the exhibition “The city. From the becoming until the decay”, which is on an international tour since 2010.

The exhibition will be presented by the Fine Arts Museum Hanoi and the Goethe-Institut.

(Source: http://www.goethe.de)