About

As early as the 1980s photographer Sven Marquardt focused on the diversity of the creative scene in former East-Berlin and began to create points of contact and visibility between the different subcultures with his expressive black and white photographs.
For almost 10 years, he has been portraying people from different cultural and social milieus around the world, most recently during a residency in New York City. There, Marquardt photographed residents on the streets of Harlem and Manhattan and became part of their stories, experiences, adventures and emotions.
Detached from borders, …