Category Archives: TRAVEL IN EUROPE
Kreuzberg Kid Photo by Lola Abrera — National Geographic Your Shot
It was 3 a.m., and I found myself wandering around the district of Kreuzberg, Berlin. He asked me for some change. I dropped in a few cents and asked him […]
Pieces of Berlin
“Regard experiences then as if they were about to disappear: what is it about them that anchors or roots them in reality? What would you save of them, what would […]
Hamburg: The Big Picture Show
“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance–nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city –as one loses oneself in […]
Barcelona: Graffiti Hunting
“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.” Raymond Salvatore Harmon
On the Streets I Ran
Has it really been six years? Has it really been six years since I was wandering the streets, getting lost, riding trains, and hunting down vintage trash, sex and sleaze, […]
Berlin Stories: Part 1
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. […]
Three Women
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” — James Joyce As the hotel elevator doors opened, I wondered what my mother […]
Wandering Through Berlin
I always looked forward to weekends in Berlin. Those were the days I would allow myself to wander. I’d even purposefully let myself get lost: If the way home was […]
Berlin Beginnings
I miss Berlin. It’s funny how I ended up moving to a city that I hadn’t even planned on visiting. I was on the first leg of my solo backpacking […]
Looking for Lola 