BALDIGA - UNLOCKED HEART

This portrait of photographer Jürgen Baldiga also tells the story of the Berlin subculture

(baldiga - entsichertes herz)

"Prostitutes, transvestites, alcoholics and the mentally ill. That's where I feel at home. That's the world that needs to be captured."

In 1979, 19-year old Jürgen Baldiga moved to Berlin and decided to become an artist. Faced with certain death from HIV infection, he discovers photography as his medium. Between despair, longing, rebellion and an irrepressible will to survive, Baldiga becomes a chronicler of the queer West Berlin subculture of the 80s and early 90s and proves his unique talent as a sensitive and provocative photographic artist.