I just received the information that I will receive the “Neustart Kultur” scholarship by the VG Wort for a book I am currently writing about the situation in Caracas, Venezuela. Preliminary title of the book: “Blackout”.
Nicolás Maduro
Colombian journal ARCADIA and the biggest news magazine of Colombia, SEMANA, published my photoreportage about the Jewish community of Venezuela. See article in SEMANA here.
Venezuela was once home to a flourishing Jewish community. When Hugo Chávez was elected president in 1998, an estimated 25.000 Jews lived in the tropical country. Today, only 7000 remain.
Since the 7th of March 2019, various nationwide blackouts sent Venezuela back into the Stone Age. The first blackout took me and the country by surprise. For almost a week, I was completely disconnected from the outside world, without electricity, water, internet and phone. A photo diary published by the Swiss magazine NZZ am Sonntag.