Magnum Editions: Berlin, Germany after the fall of the wall on Sunday, 31 December, 1989 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm) observers and unsuspecting subjects abound

observers and unsuspecting subjects abound — all perfectly framed with unmatched playfulness and simplicity that embrace and champion what it is to be human

and his home country of Britain

“It showed nothing but the back of a yellow painted stretcher with the canvas stretched and dabbed with black and white grid dots – the picture of a picture

Hurn writes

Magnum Editions: Berlin, Germany after the fall of the wall on Sunday, 31 December, 1989 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm) observers and unsuspecting subjects aboundGuy Le Querrec was in Berlin shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. The initially simple structure which had, over decades, grown into a sprawling and militarized death strip, symbolised the Cold War and, to many, the Soviet hold over portions of Europe. With the walls fall, Berlin and its inhabitants found themselves unified once more, and a period of festivity ensued. Le Querrec wrote of the period that followed, A few days