To make a Wendland „X“ portrait, fill a bucket with plutonium, dip your arms in it and take pictures fast. Before your arms melting away. (Yellow finger paint works, too)

 

The yellow X is a sign of resistance to the transport of nuclear waste. You can see it very often in the wendland. Between that it becomes a sign of the german anti-nuclear-movement. It symbolizes the „day x“. The day to stop the next Castor transportation.

(A Castor is a special container for the storage and transport of radioactive waste/substances)

 

These portraits shot at Wendland's “Mützingenta” festival.

Read more at “Wendland” portait “About”.

 

Backround Wendland:

 

The Wendland is a region in middle of nowhere Germany.

In the late 70s, german government decide to build there a big nuclear waste storage, hoping that nobody will mind. They were wrong.

 

A lot of activists, hippies etc came to the Wendland to protest. In case of that it became a solidarity between those activists and the local people, mostly very conservative farmers, who were afraid of their existence.
It comes to riots between those people and the german goverment. The german anti-nuclear movement was born. Brings one of germany's biggest polical party: „Die Grünen“.

 

These portraits shot at Wendland's “Mützingenta” festival.

Read more at “Wendland” portait “About”.