Donostia Diary - by Peter Bialobrzeski (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The latest in the series of City Diaries by Peter Bialobrzeski.

In his global, long-term project planned for approximately 50 volumes since its inception in 2013--Peter Bialobrzeski questions whether our mental image of a city, shaped by prejudice, preconception, and media representation, can be translated into authentic visual records.
For these four newest volumes, Bialobrzeski traveled to Donostia, Kigali, Palermo, and Tbilisi. He focuses on the cultural nuances visible within each cityscape, examining what has been eroded by increasing globalization and what remains distinct. Through his consistent and seemingly objective visual language, this epochal documentary experiment becomes vividly clear within each individual book and even more compelling when compared across the series.

About the Author

Peter Bialobrzeski is a German documentary photographer and professor. He is known for working with photography in in the documentary style through his explorations of urban spaces and the transformation of cities worldwide. His work often captures the dynamics of modern cityscapes through series that document specific locations over time, presented in book form as city diaries.

He studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer for a local paper in his native Wolfsburg/Germany. He travelled extensively in Asia before he went back to study photography at the Folkwangschule in Essen and the LCP in London. His work has been exhibited in Europe, USA, Asia, Afrika and Australia. He won several awards including the prestigious World Press Photo Award 2003 and 2010 and the Dr. Erich Salomon - Award by the German Society of Photographers in 2012.