Ben de Biel (taste of digbeth research)

Ben de Biel (taste of digbeth research)

Ben de Biel is the photogapher that best documented the dereliction and fast-paced mutation of East Berlin's Mitte district in the 1990. 'Artiste bohème', squat activist, legendary club owner, Ben is an icon and prime witness of the post-Wall Berlin. Since the early 90's, he relentlessly captures on film the daily changes that occured in his Mitte district, archiving the documents, accumulating raw material year after year.

I have chosen to research Ben De Biel because for my project on Digbeth i will be exploring the run down areas because i think they are a lot more interesting to photograph than the normal buildings and surroundings in the Digbeth area, i will also be taking all of my photographs in monochrome/black and white because i believe it gives the images a lot more life and makes them more aesthetically appealing as when you think of run down abandoned places you don't think of how bright the colours are or how much variation there is in the colours in the places you think of gloomy and dark which is hard to capture in full colour photographs but in black and white you can really capture the mood of the places.