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Photographer’s Powerful Images From the End of the Brutal Gulag System

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Photographer’s Powerful Images From the End of the Brutal Gulag System

A prisoner eats soup, left. No escaping the Gulag, right. The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions of people. Photographer Barry Lewis arrived in Siberia in 1991 during the glasnost era when the USSR embraced a more open attitude. Lewis was allowed … Read more

Photographer Helga Paris, Who Captured Life in East Berlin, Dies at 85

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Photographer Helga Paris, Who Captured Life in East Berlin, Dies at 85

Photographer Helga Paris, who captured daily life in Soviet Union-occupied East Berlin, has died at the age of 85. According to the DPA international, Paris’ daughter confirmed that the photographer had died on February 8 in her apartment in the German capital. ‘Every person emits something beautiful… What I find beautiful is to be open … Read more