With his trusted 35mm camera, Ron Hoffer plunged into the turbulent
post-Soviet world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a myriad of
images, he captured the beauty as well as the daily challenges, friends
and strangers alike had to face in Czechoslovakia or East Germany, while
trying to cope with the adventurously new economic and political
realities. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Ron Hoffer's
vignettes of women, the youth, everyday culture, and devastated
landscapes turn this book into a very personal memento and photographic
tribute to this astonishing time of global optimism.