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TOGETHER AGAINST FAR RIGHT · MORE THAN 300.000 CAN’T BE WRONG · IMPRESSIONS FROM THE POWERFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST RIGHT-WING RADICALISM AND RESURGENT NATIONAL SOCIALISM · SIEGESTOR MUNICH · JANUARY 21TH 2024

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AWARD WINNING STORY FOR BEST JOURNALISM »BAYERN PHOTO 2024«

THE JURY’S STATEMENT:
THROUGH ITS COMPOSTION AND COLOUR AESTHETICS, THE PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2024 UNDERLINES THE PROXIMITY TO THE PROTESTS IN THE EARLY 1930S AGAINST THE NSDAP BEFORE IT CAME TO POWER. ONLY THE DEMONSTRATORS’ CLOTHING REVEALS THE CONTEMPORARY REFERENCE. THE PICTURE COMBINES HISTORY AND THE PRESENT IN A FRIGHTENING WAY.

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FUJILOVE · ISSUE 114 · SEPTEMBER 2025:

»I SEE MY PICTURES AS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIGHT AGAINST THE RESURGENCE OF RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE FORCES IN EUROPE« - RAYMOND ROEMKE

IN THIS POWERFUL PHOTO ESSAY, RAYMOND ROEMKE DOCUMENTS MODERN RESISTANCE AGAINST FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM IN GERMANY USING LIGHT, SHADOW AND VISUAL TENSION TO CONNECT PAST AND PRESENT.

SHOT WITH THE X-H2 AND XF8-16MM / XF16-55MM ZOOMS, HIS IMAGES DRAW ON A DYSTOPIAN DOCUMENTARY AESTEHETIC TO ECHO THE FEARS OF HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.

THINK MUNICH’S SIEGESTOR, ECHOS OF 1933 AND SOLOGANS LIKE »NEVER AGAIN FASCISM«, ALL PHOTOGRAPHED WITH QUIET DEFIANCE AND COMPOSITIONAL CONTROL.

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EXHIBITIONS:

2024 PRESSEFOTO BAYERN · GROUP EXHIBITION
BAYERISCHER LANDTAG · MAXIMILIANEUM MUNICH

2025 PRESSEFOTO BAYERN · GROUP EXHIBITION
BRÜCKEN-CENTER ANSBACH

2025 DEIN BILD FÜR DEMOKRATIE
FREELENS GROUP EXHIBITION · STADTHAUS CELLE

2025 PRESSEFOTO BAYERN · GROUP EXHIBITION
STADTMUSEUM · FEMBOHAUS NUREMBERG