June 2008 will see the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift.
On this occasion the German Historical Museum shows an exhibition of photographs by the highly acclaimed Henry Ries whose legacy was acquired in 2007. With his photographs the German-born American was able to mediate an image of what was happening in Berlin and Europe in the years of 1946 through 1951 to a rather distant but alert audience in the U.S.

Henry Ries was born in Berlin in 1917. In 1937 the Jewish-born Ries fled Germany for New York. With the US entering the war in 1941 Ries voluntarily joined the Army Forces and returne...

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The Prize for Young Photojournalism was established on the initiative of Hansjoachim Nierentz in collaboration with photojournalist Eberhard Grames. It ran between 1991 and 2003 and was sponsored by Agfa. The competition, which attracted entries from around 2,800 young photojournalists over the years, aimed to discover images which told stories; pictures of individuals illustrating the many states of humanity: the perpetual suffering, joy, war, disease and suppression.
Image series by the prize winners and other outstanding individual shots from the seven competitions were given to the German Historical Museum in spring 2007. This ...

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