Andy Hall Photographer

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Berlin and the fall of the wall 30 years on – Read more

When Berlin built it’s wall in 1961, it became the epicentre of the Cold War with the notorious physical feature dividing Germany’s capital between the Communist east and the capitalist west; tearing families, friends and neighbours apart.
The Berlin Wall during it’s time did untold emotional damage to German society all along it’s stretch through the centre of the city, with numerous attempts to break through it ending often in death as friends and families tried to re-unite. “Death Strips” would be created in no-mans land areas along parts of the stretch of the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from escaping. Place names along the Wall entered the Cold War lexicon like ‘Checkpoint Charlie’ which was the city’s official crossing point where armed soldiers from the communist bloc would face their American enemies. Other place-names that became infamous Cold War symbols were Potsdamerplatz, where you can still see old bits of the wall doted around the now slick new urban landscape.
That all changed one night in November 1989 when 20,000 East Germans flooded the border at Bolhomer Strasse and crossed over to the west, precipitating the eventual collapse of the Berlin Wall and the ending of the Cold War soon after.

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Contact Andy

Andy hall is based in london and has been a freelance photographer since 1989.

Specializing in photo essays from home and abroad, his work has taken him on a wide range of commissioned news, portrait, landscape and social documentary features for numerous publications around the world.

Publications his work has appeared in, include:
The Observer and the Guardian newspapers and magazines (contract photographer), the times magazine and the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent and Independent on Sunday, New York Times Magazine, Red Bulletin Magazine, Newsweek, GQ Magazine and Der Speigel Magazine.

Andy’s commercial clients include Transport for London, and he has also worked as a stills photographer for Film Four, and Channel Four. Throughout his career, andy has worked for aid agencies and NGO’s including Oxfam, Save the Children and Action Aid.

Andy has contributed to numerous exhibitions on subjects such as ; Angola, South Africa – the last days of apartheid, as well as Oxfam-sponsored exhibitions on the indian ocean tsunami, poverty and the arms trade, and ‘After the thaw’- an exhibition on the former Soviet Republics 20 years on. His portraits of film directors and celebrities have been shown in numerous getty-sponsored exhibitions around the world.

Andy has collaborated in book projects ranging from “montreal – eye on the metropolis”(2000), to the british press photography anthology – “Eyewitness; five thousand days”(2004), “Muhammad Ali – the glory years”(2002), as well as the book project “UK at home”(2008). His commissioned work on the ongoing hunger crisis in sub-saharan Africa was screened at visa pour L’image, Perpignan in 2012.

Andy’s portfolio is available on request.
Contact details :
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www.andyhallphotographer.com
45 hopedale road,
London SE7 7JH,
UK

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