Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Berlin on a Dog's Night

Between 1977 and 1990, Gundula Schulze Eldowy roamed East Berlin with her camera: her powerful,direct images capture the long post-war period in the socialist part of the city, the deep scars ofthe inferno that had engulfed Germany, and the old Berlin milieu with its one-of-a-kind individualsand people living on the fringes, who soon vanished from the face of the city after the fall of thewall. Schulze Eldowy trains her gaze on the existential aspects of life. She looks at the world witha rare combination of sensitivity and a lack of inhibition that is both touching and painful.The series of images that are being shown in Berlin on a Dog's Night constitute Schulze Eldowy'searly work. These are the pictures that brought her international recognition and now feature inimportant photographic collections. The book, which has long been out of print, is now beingreprinted in a new layout with over thirty additional photographs.Gundula Schulze Eldowy, b. 1954 in Erfurt, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) andbegan working as a freelance photographer in Berlin in 1984. In the period up until 1990, sheproduced the black-and-white works Berlin in einer Hundenacht, Arbeit, Aktporträts, Tamerlan,and the two colour cycles Der große und der kleine Schritt and Den letzten beißen die Hunde. In1990 she embarked on a series of journeys that took her to Egypt (1993-2000), Japan (1996 -97),and, from 2001 on, to Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. She lives in Berlin and Peru.