Joint Exhibition at Sankt Studios
with Duke University

Stockburger first visited one of the class sessions of the Duke students, where he introduced them to his own photographic work on the transatlantic relationship between Germany and the U.S. He then further introduced the overall project with German youth, and described to the college students the types of interests and concerns the German youth had discussed over the previous year. Two days later, student and teacher representatives from the German youth group and schools meet with the college students at the Allied Museum. After a 45-minute tour of the museum, the overall group broke into break-out groups, with each group consisting of members from both the German youth group and the college students. Together they then embarked on a 1.5 hour photo/history scavenger hunt. Each team was given a camera and a digital map of the area marked with various locations. At these locations, the students could find traces of the former American presence.

For example, the former gym of the U.S. forces, which still features the original billboard, remains today. Old American signs are also located all around the former housing area. The original American street names such as, Taylor- and Flanagan-street, or the American basketball court inside a German youth center, were further evident traces of American life that the students sought out in this active exercise.

For each discovered trace, the students earned a certain amount of points reflecting the difficulty of finding it. The team photographing the most traces within 1.5 hours won. Additionally, they had the possibility to earn extra points by re-enacting two historic photographs. Therefore, the students had to find the exact location and recreate the situation and perspective to match the original historical image. 

After the students independently explored the neighborhood on their historical scavenger hunt for 1.5 hours, they all met back at a local café to evaluate the results and announce the winners.

Three days later the group met again, this time at Sankt Studios in Berlin. Sankt Studios is housed in a former church. Together they hung a joint exhibition of photographs in the main gallery and stairwell, consisting of photographs made by the German youth over the previous five workshops as well as class project photographs by the college students. Approximately 75 photographs total were hung, as well as artist statements about each project that the students had written (in English or German). To celebrate the conclusion of this week, the group had a cook-out in the courtyard outside the exhibition.