Thomas Dworzak “Himmel Über Belfast.” Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1990.
"At 17, with two years of high school still ahead of me, I bought an ‘interrail’ ticket that allowed me to take any train in Europe. Having
(...) read an article about a photographer in Belfast, I went to Northern Ireland during the Easter holidays. I stayed in a youth hostel. Rented a bicycle to get around. Terrified of getting caught, I tried to take pictures of the British soldiers from my hip. I had five rolls of East German ORWO black and white film.
Still used to the way in which we took pictures in my family, one at a time, and one per event, those rolls lasted me the whole trip.
When I developed them I found images of edges of roofs, phone lines and a lot of clouds and the sky. This line of police surveilling a Sinn Fein event is about the only photo in which I hadn’t aimed too high."
– Thomas Dworzak © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
