Berlin Checkpoint Charlie 3 Canvas Print

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When the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 Checkpoint Charlie was built as crossing point for the allies. During the whole cold war ending with the German reunification it was a
symbol of the face to face confrontation which here is shown on a big photo display on the former border line.

Copyright by Rudi Prott, Munich.

I started photographing when I was 16 years old. In the beginning I set the focus to soccer. Four years later I made the photos for the local soccer team and the local newspaper. After having finished my university studies I started traveling. Photographing nature and sometimes city views replaced the soccer engagement. In the 90s I had two exhibitions in the rooms of a Life Insurance in Munich (Carnevale di Venezia and Nepal). The Venice images where used by a big pre press company for a calendar. For 2012 I published my first own calendar about World Heritage Sites of Nature. In the next years some shared exhibitions followed: 'modern architecture', 'micro and macro photography', 'black and white'. Important notes: All my artwork is...