“The photograph was taken a few minutes after an “accident” had occured to a young woman, as I was walking across Alexanderplatz, in Berlin. The picture is undeniably ‘dramatic’, and the effect is magnified by its cropping and composition, two men and a woman are bending over the unconscious body in a triangular disposition that is reminiscent of the Renaissance conventional “Pietà”. One cannot infer the causes of the accident from the picture, I, as a tourist, couldn’t either. Blowing up the photograph didn’t help, it just made it more spectacular but equally reticent. I started questioning the tourist’s gawk , the desire to consume and appropriate no matter what, no matter why, the more uncanny the better.
A caption referring to this picture can be found in a small photo-book, dating 1990, from which most pictures have been removed, leaving only brief descriptions of places visited or people met during my Berlin tour.”