"ATLANTIKWALL"

 

atlantikwall

 

it features a selection of photographs of the atlantik wall around cap ferret. those coastal fortifications were "built" by adolf hitler from 1942 to 44 along the western coast of europe, to defend the german third reich against the western allies.

one topic of this workgroup is to show, how this former bunkers and batteries developed to a kind of "black board" for people, to express themselves. and how the appearance of their surface changes every year. during autumn and winter lots of history is peeled and washed away by sand and sea, as parts of those monumental signs of time are too ... new stories are ment to be written every year. be sure i will continue documenting them ...