Rainer Vogt

I learned to fly a small plane out of Tempelhof before the airport closed, so the huge open field it left behind still feels different to me than it does to most visitors treating it as simply a park. On camera I walk the old runway markings, explaining the Berlin Airlift that once kept the whole city supplied by air during a Soviet blockade. I keep a relaxed, fairly detailed pace and welcome questions about both the airport's history and its current life as public space. Video works particularly well here, since the scale of the open field is hard to grasp from ground level in a single photograph.