Reading Others’ Bio
From Michael Hughes‘s (his Sovernirs set is featured on Flickr Blog):
My first wife left me in 1981, which although painful, led to two very positive developments; I decided to become a
full-time photographer and my weekly migraines disappeared for ever. In 1982 I accidentally went to Berlin met a group
of politically active but thankfully not Trotzkyist, squatters, fell in love and began to build a life there (here).
1983 moved permanently to Berlin. Became involved with the FDGÖ, a politically based media collective,
producing stickers, postcards and latterly a video performance installation based on Samuel Beckett, which toured Germany
and was invited to the “Dokumentarfilmtage” in Leipzig, then DDR in1985. A portrait project which I called “True Stories”,
Black and white photos are combined with a text which synthesises the history or aspirations of the subject,
complementing or contradicting the perceived impression of the photo. The project continued over the next few years,
resulting in an exhibition in Berlin in 1986, and was shown, as part of the European Cultural Capital in Glasgow in 1987.
The Berlin Wall came down while I was working for Stern, I was suffering from a cold and went home,
something for which I was never forgiven.
This one from PPK’s site:
Originally I was educated in ancient history (Greeks and Romans) and as a teacher. I couldn’t find work, though, and although I busied myself for two years with research into ancient Germanic sagas, especially the Thidrekssaga, I wanted to get a real job to earn some real money.
Therefore I switched to the Internet at the tail end of 1997, when I started on a (very bad) course that would make me “Internet Advisor”, whatever that may be. I took the opportunity to delve deeper into the practical issues that confronted anyone who wants to create web sites.
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