Berlin Wall Flickr Project wants Photographs

 Last week I spoke about a podcast on the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This week I'd like to talk about a project in a different media. Flickr is a file hosting and sharing website and a new project has been started on it called 'Experience History: Berlin 1961 - 1989'. It asks you to submit photographs you have of Berlin during that period, when the wall divided the city. Not just pictures of the wall, although those would certainly be evocative, but any life in the city. While I'm partly interested in this because of the chance to see history - there's a good photo of the kind of signs used to divide the different sectors - a post on their dedicated blog had a particular resonance: "If you were living or visiting Berlin at that time, this is a wonderful excuse to rediscover your old slides and dust off those photo-filled shoe boxes that are lurking under your bed." My father travelled behind the 'Iron Curtain' as a child, and has boxes of slides, although none of Berlin. If you have something to show, or just want to look, this is the blog with the details.