LUXEMBURG

For several reasons the small but Grand Duchy of Luxembourg had for long been more of a transit point for me rather than a destination in its own right: My wife hails from beautiful Eifel, a beautiful  but backyard German region full of volcanic lakes and great saga. The Eifel borders Luxembourg to the east, Alsace-Lorraine where I spent eleven month to learn Savoir-vivre,  to the south. Everything changed when I accidentally came across one of the greatest photo exhibitions of all time, of all things in the medieval castle of Clervaux in northern Luxembourg. The exhibition boasts photos by my heroes Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, August Sander, Dorothea Lange and 269 other photographers from 68 different countries and had already been conceived in the 1950s by Edward Steichen for the MoMA in New York. Steichen hailed from Luxembourg. He and his fellow photographers did what I am trying to do as a modest one-man-show: Showing the universality of human needs and desires, showing that we are truly One World