Exhibition “New York Short Stories”
As a director and author, Mario Schneider is an experienced storyteller. With “New York Short Stories”, he shows that his photographs also have narrative power. His street photography focuses on fleeting, intimate moments and interpersonal encounters – and thus opens up a different, quieter view of the city that never sleeps: New York.
To mark the publication of the photo book of the same name by the renowned Kehrer Verlag, the Helle Kammer e. V. association is presenting Schneider’s iconic photographs. They show New York from an unusual, very personal perspective. For Mario Schneider, who spent his childhood and youth in the GDR, what seemed unattainable until the age of 20 – a place he thought he would never see – only became tangible for him much later with his camera. His pictures tell of tenderness, comfort, love and hope and open up a calm, concentrated view of a city beyond the expected.
The evening will be accompanied musically by “Tomy Suil & die zweite Sprache”. With his band, Tomy Suil tells a rousing and emotional story about how it feels to be a foreigner in a country. He sings songs from all over the world.