Whispers in East Berlin by Nashalina Schrape

This is the story of a house build in 1938 in East Berlin. Four  generations of my family have experienced the events of World War II,  Russian invasion and occupation via the Berlin Wall in this house. These photographs attempt to break open the legacy of my families  personal trauma and the dark memories of violence, loss, terror,  separation and suppression. There were always ghosts in the house. Breathing, moving, slowly.  Changing the shadows. Whispers of movement of articles of clothing. They  were memories. Not actual spirits. They were things that happened in the  house in the past and they stayed. They didn’t leave. And they were  thick. They were not loud. They were the things we did not talk about.Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7046Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7057Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7177Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7229Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7281Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7399Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7433Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-7496Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-8634Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-8875Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-8958Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-9195Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-9302Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-9367Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-9422Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-9772Nashalina Schrape_Whispers in East Berlin-9889www.nashalinaschrape.com