Joel Schalit / 17 Feb 2021
Apocalypse Berlin
High on Coronavirus
Sirens were blaring. Bodies were getting carted away. Our street felt like a war zone.(...)
Photo Essays
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 28 Sep 2020
Change Comes to Montenegro
Resisting the Call of Nationalism
We arrived late in the evening by car from Brussels to Podgorica. No small feat, given the length of the journey and borders closing due to Coronavirus. We found ourselves following the Israeli cycling team out of Belgium’s Ardennes.(...)
Joel Schalit / 24 Jul 2020
Berlin After Lockdown
Don’t Forget the Kurds
History was at a standstill. The two months that the German capital was under lockdown made its residents seem as though time had stopped. It felt like the end of the world was nigh. Sidewalks were empty. Stores were closed. The hum of traffic had even disappeared.(...)
Joel Schalit / 08 May 2020
The New Refugee Crisis
Berlin on Greece
Greece is a niche subject. That is if the street art of the German capital is the decider. Off the walls for the better part of the last decade, Athens hasn't figured prominently since the 2008 economic crisis, when it appeared everywhere. That is, until now.(...)
Joel Schalit / 13 Apr 2020
Public Service Announcements
Framing the Coronavirus Crisis
My neighbourhood is a book. If you want an education on the most important topics of the day, all you have to do is read the walls. By the time you've walked four blocks, you'll have a PhD in the zeitgeist.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 25 Mar 2020
Remembering the Brussels Attacks
Molenbeek and Diversity
Four years ago extremism came to Brussels. It exploded in the airport and metro, and in our hearts. Although we knew it could happen here, we didn't expect it. (...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Mar 2020
Protest and Survive
International Women’s Day in Berlin
Germany is drowning in a sea of hatred. No country is as plagued by far-right terrorism in Europe as the Bundesrepublik. Rarely is there a day without attacks on minorities and migrants.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Nov 2019
Post-Communist Berlin
The #Mauerfall30 Tour
1989 marked the end of the Second World War. The only thing significant about 1945 was a reduction in the combatants. With Germany out of the ring, the fight was down to the United States and the Soviet Union. For the next half a century.(...)
Joel Schalit / 21 Oct 2019
If Not Now, When?
The Crisis in Rojava
When was the last time that Washington backed the good guys? Barack Obama's support for Syria's Kurds was always a fraught proposition.(...)
Joel Schalit / 30 Sep 2019
Diversity is Everywhere
On Photographing Minorities
"You're giving the wrong impression of Berlin," the email read. "It's in Germany, not Iraq." So read the umpteenth message I'd received that day from readers of Reddit Berlin, one of the most highly used social media forums about the city, in English. It was one of the kinder notes I received.(...)