photographic report on the gloom of an unknown, politically influential metropolis in the centre of central europe. pictures of a life between the facades of wealth, plastic bags, uprooted people, poverty, despair, pommes frites and the king.»it is the courage to perform radical solutions with which the citizens of bruxelles destroyed their once marveloous city ….the photos taken by christof leistl approach the people of bruxelles. his view condenses, makes the urban invisible perceptible …« (süddeutsche zeitung)

published 1996