Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
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Joel Schalit / 10 Jan 2022
Asylum From Germany
The Coronavirus Shakes
They asked what the purpose of our visit was. “We’re fleeing Germany,” I said, as I handed over our Israeli and American passports. “My wife and I want to apply for asylum.”(...)
Joel Schalit / 09 Jul 2021
Everything is Field Recording
Learning From the BBC
Women were screaming. Gunfire echoed in the distance. A British accented voice drifted in and out, periodically commenting on the upheaval.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 30 Jun 2021
The Art of Listening
This is What Europe Sounds Like, by Joel Schalit
This is What Europe Sounds Like makes for uneasy listening. Not because of strident guitars, disturbing lyrics, or aggressive atonality, but because it refuses to meet the expectation of music at all.(...)
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.(...)
John Foster / 13 Sep 2019
Coming Up for Air
The Populist Interregnum
Describing his time in Nazi prison camps in the 1930s, Paul Massing noted that the experience was much more difficult for those outside his political party.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Sep 2019
Dangerous Outsiders
The European Commission’s New Migrant Brand
Nationalism is here to stay. The far-right may never take over the European Commission. But its politics are now mainstream and have changed the way the executive frames multiculturalism.(...)
Joel Schalit / 28 Jun 2019
Notes From a Demonstration
Germany’s Moral Debt Crisis
No country, apart from the United States, is as riven with debate about its relationship with Israel as Germany.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Jan 2019
Turin for Migrants
Multicultural Italy
From Palermo to Turin, to outsiders, Italy resembles a typically multicultural, globalised nation-state. Difficulty in understanding that has more to do with politics than it does with actually existing Italy.(...)