Roger Melis | The East Germans
Die Ostdeutschen

“Hardly any other photographer documented the East Germans and their everyday experiences for so long, so intensely, and in so many respects as Roger Melis (1940 – 2009).
For three decades the co-founder and “Master of East German Photorealism” (Die ZEIT) travelled far and wide across the GDR, a country that he often found “silent” and “ossified” under the rule of the SED.“