Andree Kaiser, Syria © by courtesy of Screenshot Website: Andree Kaiser „Syrien ein Land am Abgrund“
The camera protects me as a photographer. It creates a shelter between emotional situations and me. (Andree Kaiser)
Andree Kaiser (*1964) was trained as a photographer in Pankow, a district in East Berlin. He served a prison sentence in various detention centers of the State Security Service, commonly known as the Stasi, for his attempt to flee German Democratic Republic (DDR). Kaiser got out in 1986 as part of a prisoner release. He started his photojournalism career at Reuters in 1988 and afterward joined several agencies, which resulted in several assignments with travels to eastern European countries. Between 1991 and 1993 he conducted several reportages in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia for Newsday (New York).
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Quelle: https://www.visual-history.de/2018/06/27/picturing-violence-interview-with-andree-kaiser/