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0:00 [Music] thanks for coming um who's ever heard of Getty Images anybody um you know that uh Getty Images is divided into two parts there's Getty creative which has that incredibly wide spectrum of pictures that get used for advertising but also an editorial like for illustrations and newspapers and then there's a um a Getty Images editorial which is also divided into News sports and entertainment so small correction I'm in charge of of Getty Images news in Germany not worldwide
0:46 Germany a little bit Eastern Europe which means that I'm taking pictures almost every day um but I also have um a good network of freelance photographers that I work with um and I'm assigning so my job is to figure out mainly for the international market but also we have a wide range of clients now in Germany so at least ntion what's of national news interest uh internationally and in Germany and what kind of pictures are we going to produce um so I'll launch right into it um the biggest news event by far uh in 2016 was
1:31 the attack in Berlin uh at the Christmas Market so it was a Monday I I'd been out all day shooting um I was home I was sitting on the couch with with my wife we were going to watch our favorite American TV series and I got a a headline on my phone a truck has driven into a truck uh into a Christmas Market in charlottenborg so I grabbed my stuff I didn't even know where it was yet I just grabbed my stuff got in the car my wife called me about five minutes later and she said oh it's at bright Platz and so this is what I found um so when something like this happens you know this is of international news every uh of international interest everywhere so there's a huge pressure to get pictures out as quickly as possible so I got there I parked like um 300 meters away
2:20 the first thing I saw was some ambulances I took a picture a few pictures of that I sent those pictures already from the camera to London where there was a colleague who was going to caption them and send them out because when there's that headline every single news organization and newspaper in the world is picking up that headline and they immediately need a picture to go with it so even if those initial pictures of the ambulance you know was that wasn't that big a deal at least they already had something so anyway so um this is probably like within the first half hour that I was there at first the police kept us very far I couldn't even see the truck here's the truck um after a little while they let us get closer so we just you know and by then there was a lot of media present so we just stayed there um and this is what
3:05 we saw through the course of the evening um the truck had driven a bit from the right it it only went through maybe a 100 meters of the market and then got stuck um but it did a um horrific damage uh I think eight people were killed at the Christmas Market um another 50 injured um injured people were being taken away there were initial investigations happening um this is one of the Stalls at the market that was just flattened by the truck um and you can imagine there were probably people inside um through the course of the evening of course there there are a lot of people coming by I mean this is right
3:51 in the middle of Berlin people are curious um and so part of telling the story is not just what happened in inside the Christmas Market but how is the city reacting how are the people reacting um quickly there were these makeshift memorials that were propping up um you know especially the day after it already looked like this there were probably half a dozen of these kinds of memorials all around Bai plats um people leaving messages um among the dead and injured there were also tourists um so and then another angle that we we need to of course what about the government um this is Angela giving her first statement uh this was the day
4:37 after the attack um then she and Mel Miller he's the the mayor of Berlin Thomas D domier the interior minister they came um they also wrote In the book of condolences in the church which is right at the square and so in the morning of course it continues and so you know our duty as photojournalists is just to stay on the story to keep um uh to keep telling what's happening through pictures um but also because the demand from newspapers and outlets for more coverage continued coverage because you have to understand there's a lot of information that's coming out too so the first the initial report was there there was a Pakistani guy who had been
5:23 arrested then it turned out he had nothing to do with it then they got on they found the mobile phone of the actual hacker in the truck so there's always more information coming out which means there are more stories being written which means they need fresh pictures um so it continues um this was a peak through these screens you can see some of the damage then I was able to get a better View and then this was at pariza Platz um where they had put the colors of the German flag on the Brandenburg gate um another big story that we've been following is the rise of the right it's a European story it's I'm American
6:10 it's even an American story I have to admit um this was in Cobin a few weeks ago so we have FR ketri head of the alternative for Dutchland um meeting with pretty much all the representatives of major rightwing parties in Europe here we have Marine Leen andad VOS um and they were celebrating themselves uh in this Congress Hall in coin um so and with something like the afd from the German angle um we've been focusing on FR Petri and the other leaders of the party um to accumulate a wide range of pictures um this is her meeting there was a sort
6:56 of PR uh ATT attempt of a meeting with Muslim representatives in Berlin um this is bjon hooker who's on the far right end of the party um and has caused a bit of an uproar recently um this was at a gathering in front of the chancell uh this was in Berlin State elections so of course there have been State elections all throughout two 2016 they're going to be three more before Federal elections here in Germany in September so each one is going to be closely looked at to see okay what are the the Tendencies how is Mao doing is the afd rising so this is Berlin State elections uh in the evening after the results G petki he was the afd
7:43 candidate um that was the CDU main candidate for the television interviews they weren't you know CDU a guy wasn't too happy to be seeing him so but with a story like this we're going to look at okay who are the main players the leaders but we also want to get a feel for what's behind it what's the origin who are the people who are supporting the afd um and there's a big difference in East German Eastern Germany and Western Germany so this was in during the state elections in uh zon unhard um a small rally this was actually during the Berlin State elections at a CDU rally and there were all these hecklers in the back um who are making their position very clear um this was on reunification day in Dresden um where
8:31 the and Dresden as you as many of you know is the the birthplace of PAG so they were out in full force um trying to give their message um and especially this guy who got especially uh riled up um this was uh after the attack in Berlin um a vigil for the victim supposedly um in front of the chancell um um and so the afd it it came on it sort of rid the populist uh right-wing rise that started with pag and pag they it started with a lot of attention it ebbed a bit but it's it's you know that's the
9:18 root of um of the afd's appeal the in terms of the topics and Etc um the third story we've been following which on the opposite side and much closer I I admit a little bias um I mean I'm a a migrant I'm American my wife is Czech um we have two children we came here in 2004 um and so the the migrants and refugees story has has been something that we've been trying to keep um a close eye on even as it shifts away from the headlines you know in 2015 uh the pictures that that set the tone
10:03 were you know from the train stations and the borders when hundreds of thousands of people were coming over in 2016 things calmed down but you know these people are still here so we want to tr we want to show okay what's happening to them what's the situation how are they living um you know a lot of them are still in these container Villages or container communities or in gymnasiums um as they're waiting for their Asylum applications to be processed this is at Temple former airport in Berlin um this is also in Temple it's actually with a drone I was able to fly the Drone in the hole um and the the the
10:49 whole process of integration German Germany has been very active um in language instruction in getting children into the welcome classes um also with job training this is an effort by deutche ban um they have a training program in electronics and mechatronics to try to help people to help the migrants get ready for the job market um I I thought this was interesting it it was a language class but it was also more just of a sort of um what to expect in Germany so you know when you go to the doctor when you go to see bureaucrats um and these are actually people who don't have much uh likelihood of getting Asylum they're
11:34 mostly from Afghanistan and some from Iran um but I think the German government has figured out well these people are still going to be here for quite a while um uh these young women were this is at a little ceremony at an office in Berlin where they were getting their language certificates for having done 200 hours of German language class um this is uh an effort by the Bund to also do its bit it's a um a first aid class for for women from Syria um the bundes has been actually pretty active they they have classes in construction that they had about six or eight different fields in which they were I'm training refugees to help them get a foot in in the job market this is
12:20 at Deutsche ban again the electronics class um this was a class for um uh for Refugee women who have no experience with computers um just the basics you know it's essential it's it's an essential part of integration um and it's a skill that they need um and you know it's always nice too to see the instances where the refugees and locals are coming together this was in in a suburb of Berlin every Tuesday there's a little info Cafe and it's just people from the neighborhood a lot of retirees who come and have really sort of adopted some of the refugees to help them get through the bureaucracy um this is the Archbishop of
13:05 Berlin who was blessing shelter this was only a couple weeks ago um just outside of Berlin um and this is the interior Minister again Thomas Deo who was who was visiting the class um of the people who don't have such a good chance of getting Asylum but are still getting skills with h chatting with a young woman from Iran um and of course you know we have to show well what's the reaction been and the reaction hasn't always been positive this was a hotel that was slated to be a refugee shelter in boutsen in Eastern Germany um which locals uh you know they did their best to make sure it does not become a shelter um so as I mentioned our our main goal is to cover the news in
13:51 Germany that's of international interest so you know of course someone like Obama coming well we've got to cover that and any as best we can um he the first picture there was from uh Hanover he went to the Trade Fair and then he came again in the fall um so met with meaku and with other European leaders and so I mean uh a picture like this that's the more sort of classic picture that's likely to to run in the newspapers the next day but we also look for for other ways um of just a different kind of visual language so we also go with something like that you know that's just coincidence that the photographer got both flashes coming in um but it made for a beautiful
14:38 picture um angti um you know now she's the so-called leader the last leader of the Free World um so we've got to keep a special uh attention especially this year because they're going to be elections um so we've been following keeping a close eye on events that seem interesting where we can get fresh pictures this was actually in Warsaw at the NATO Summit um with Mr Eran and this picture has become quite timely and useful again given the current situation um this was in France and ver at the anniversary of the battle of of Veron um this was uh on the campaign Trail in meinburg Forman during
15:24 State elections there uh just a selfie with a local um this was in Berlin at a French Lis and some new budding fans um this was at the in in Essen at the at the federal Congress of the CDU so here too you know we're going to look um because it something like this produces a lot of pictures so you have to think okay what's going to run in the newspaper the next day well it'll be something like this or something like this you know after she's been elected again as head of the party and she's grateful um I think this picture actually did run on on the front page of one of one German paper um or something like this you know she's happy she's she's in control but then we're also going to
16:11 look what are the pictures that maybe won't run tomorrow but are useful for the long run so this was on this dat she just sort of was she was going back and forth sometimes and she paused for a moment and um I mean this doesn't tell the story of of the Congress of the the the election result but it's a great picture for later on um as things get tough um and uh and um uh this picture happened at the very end a lot of the photographers had already left and she was doing U um TV interviews and just going from um broadcaster to broadcaster and it was perfect light um so we got that this was at uh at an event um at
17:00 schlo B at the presidential Palace which is a place we don't go too often because it it's already becoming a bit too local news um but there there was just this beautiful instant of the light touching her face the way it did um which was a great opportunity and of course we're also going to look well how are her long-term prospects does she have support this was at a rally during the Berlin State elections where she was campaigning on behalf of the CDU candidate so you so a supporter but then there's also skepticism you know we need to show that through pictures um we cover uh German politics um we try to keep it for international news um but it's
17:48 easy to underestimate what plays internationally um I've been burned a few times um not just with news I mean not not just with politics but with other events um this was when the uh when the three Coalition Partners announced that hashin Maya was going to become the candidate for the next German uh president and then sure enough a few weeks um later he was elected president at a rather colorful uh meeting of the federal assembly in Berlin um and since mid January she's got a very viable uh Challenger uh from Martin Schulz the former um president of
18:33 the European Parliament Social Democrat um so he announced his candidacy I think it was January 20th we didn't you know we had pictures from Brussels but he'd only been he hadn't been in Germany that many times so we need we really needed to act quickly to look at which opportunities were we going to have to photograph him but also where there was going to be a wider range um so you know we need to show okay he's a new candidate he's he's he's already campaigning this was in leig it was his first bigger appearance in Eastern Germany um and you know even just down to to head shots um I mean that's what those are the kinds of pictures that get used all the time um this was during a little Walkabout that he did in zaben um and he
19:20 got some k a good a good German um other new stories that we followed throughout the year this was the The Verdict by the federal constitutional Court over the future of the NPD um this was interesting to see how how the coverage how the pictures played both in Germany and internationally because this was a story that got picked up uh internationally um it was mainly pictures of the happy NPD guys that ran for instance in the New York Times and elsewhere whereas in Germany it was mostly pictures of the judges um I suspect it's because of a certain political correctness that oh we don't want to give the NPD undue attention so we're not going to show them um but
20:06 maybe I'm wrong um and it also allowed for a little humor uh this is the head of the NPD in zand um who really didn't mind my being there and taking a picture um another bigo story here in Munich the shooting uh in what was it July August August I was I was in the car on on my way to Italy with my family on vacation and I got the headline um I work mainly with freelance photographers in the headline it saidov Centrum Olympia Park I thought oh my God wait y he lives in right next to Olympia Park let's call him he was home he got on his bike he was in the area um around the inov
20:55 Centrum very quickly and the police soon sealed it off so he he and only two or one or two other photographers were in there and could stay there um while all of this was unfolding so it was a horrific tragic event but for our coverage the circumstances we were very lucky because he was in there so quickly um so this kind of coverage it's very rare you know to see this because usually the police seal everything off and that's it um and then of course um following the story uh the day after or the days after in the morning um this the the horror house in hookstone um it's a small
21:41 town oh okay I better hurry um I'll rip through this quickly um hooka there was a man and a woman had imprisoned women and tortured them and two of them died this is one of the guys on trial uh this was the murder scene seen uh by an Afghan Refugee which is going to be I'm waiting to see how this plays out in uh the elections uh this year near campaigning uh flash flood in b venberg in a small town we don't only cover Horrors um October Fest everybody loves the world's biggest party um so of course we we always cover that with two or three photographers um and unfortunately the
22:29 past couple day couple years in a row it's rained during the opening days um but what can you do maybe this year we'll be uh we'll be luckier um sometimes we go to news events not because they're a big they're a big deal this was a wind turbine that had fallen over in Northern Germany but I have a drone and I could also do this um just to see you know see if there's an interesting uh picture and this actually played International this it was in The Baltimore Sun um the annual commemoration in Dresden of the Allied bombing the human chain it's not a huge story but it's a beautiful picture and this year there was also this uh installation by a Syrian German artist alluding to what's happening in
23:16 Aleppo um of course anything now that deals with Trump and right-wing politics uh this was the annual Carnival uh in mind sud and cologne um of course it was uh it was good fodder erdogan destroying press freedoms uh the result of brexit um and the real decapitation of a trump figure um we also do features um these aren't news related it's just something where we can find beautiful pictures that might run somewhere is a tulip farm in magor this is the annual wave Gothic meeting in leig um this is Maya the elephant she's a circus elephant and her
24:02 minders would take her for a walk every day in the neighborhood near the circus where they were performing these are sorbian uh Slavic minority in Eastern Germany during one of their annual events um the end of Ramadan in Berlin um we did a little package just on summer in Berlin um 20 or 30 pictures uh the annual fures meeting in Berlin uh people who dress up as animals and um converge uh this is with a drone too this is a a grain harvest in Brandenburg I spent a day with an Apple farmer um right before Christmas these ice swimmers they love to show off they actually it used to actually be ice now
24:48 it's just very cold water um this was an annual dinner hosted in Berlin for homeless people um 3,000 homeless people um we also looked just also for editorial stock so this was on a cold winter day it was sunny it's kind of rare in uh the L region I sent out a photographer just because I knew that the steam you know when it's cold like that but it's a sunny day you're going to see the steam really well and provide dramatic imagery um Banks always a story The the financial district um you can't shoot Banks enough um and in a way you know that's a little different than what our competitors are doing um um Martin Luther it's the 5 500th anniversary I got it 500th
25:34 anniversary um of him nailing his thesis to the church doors um it actually kicked off with the 499th anniversary in October so it's running all year so we try to get a set of pictures you know to to get that in the archive to get it going to provide imagery and and to continue coverage and of course anything to do with Trump I mean this is a direct reference you know to the wall that he wants to build in Berlin there's a wall or you know something that maybe doesn't mention him by name but eludes to him um very quickly because I'm almost at a time I'm very fortunate because Getty encourages me to travel so last year was the 30th anniversary of the catastrophe at Chernobyl so I spent 10 days
26:21 traveling through Ukraine and bellarus um I did a series of portraits of Liquidators these are the men and women who went in um after the accident to clean it up um and a lot of them a lot of them are dead um even the ones who are alive have serious health issues um this guy for instance that's his daughter his grandson they both have heart afflictions they need this the the little boy needs open heart surgery he doesn't know if he's to blame or not um ongoing testing of children in the areas around Chernobyl um and The Afflicted children and this was this was a difficult story to do emotionally um but also just as a journalist because this remains a very
27:08 uh controversial topic is is the radiation from Chernobyl is it responsible uh for these ailments of children today um because there are so many other factors that could be contributing um but so but it was you know it's a story that we need to do and the and I also went back for the actual anniversary I went to slavu which is the town where the workers live now who are still working at chernobil and very quickly still at the end um I spent a week uh to illustrate climate change I I was visiting glaciers melting glaciers in Switzerland and Austria this is the pataa glacier in Austria which is just crumbling they have all these signs so
27:54 2015 a year later it's way back there um I spent a day with a guide and some tourists walking around on the glacier this is the Alish in Switzerland very dramatic um water that rushes through on the sides and makes these sort of caves uh Switzerland has liberal drone laws so I flew the Drone around a little bit um and it was hot this is a rone gler in Switzerland a portion of which gets covered in these blankets but it's really just a to cover a tourist attraction which is these tunnels um these are two smaller GLA glaciers in Austria the one on the left
28:42 the of VX EG I think it's called used to go all the way to the Hut this is a belluna Hut which was built around 1920 um and also spent a day with some scientists who do annual research um and they let me into this crevice my wife was thrilled when she saw that picture um and then finally I want to finish on this picture this is actually from 2015 it's Malo doing a selfie with a Syrian refugee um this picture has probably gotten more play than any other picture I've shot in the last couple years and it's become relevant recently there was a a trial in bitburg because this picture and the the the selfie that the
29:28 the Syrian refugee took have both been misused on Facebook um by right-wing groups trying to accuse him of being a terrorist and saying ha look MAA poses with a terrorist so he took Facebook to court uh the result was just announced yesterday I think that he lost that Facebook is not liable for erasing the images as they appear um but fake news um that's that's a new issue that is relevant for us because our pictures have the potential will be misused um I guess I'm out of time Boris you have a question or two I would come [Applause]
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