Contact Sheet Print: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) this image appears to have

this image appears to have been a perfect example of being in the right place at just the right moment

frozen in perfect sync

‘A big story never pays–that’s right

” wrote Bruno Barbey of his time shooting the Paris riots

Contact Sheet Print: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) this image appears to haveHaving photographed the Berlin Wall being constructed as a 19 year old, Raymond Depardon found himself back in the city on assignment for the newspaper Libration covering the Walls fall, in late 1989. He made this series of images near the Brandenburg Gate, and while it featured on the front pages of the Financial Times, and Le Monde at the time it has, as he explains below, gained greater value over time. Depardon wrote of the series as you can see