About the time I lived in Friedrich­shain, I remem­ber one thing quite clearly: the abund­ance of front­doors covered in graf­fiti. Only recently, my pho­to­grapher friend David showed me an impress­ive series of pho­tos he shot on a bright and sunny day whilst hunt­ing these remark­able filthy doors of Friedrich­shain and Kreuzberg.

His idea was simple, yet intriguing: David took a walk around the neigh­bour­hood and would sys­tem­at­ic­ally take pho­tos of every front­door he’d encounter and that would have any signs of graf­fiti on or around it. Hav­ing Hip­sta­matic at hand, he didn’t have to bother about any devel­op­ing issues and could cre­ate a big series of pic­tures in a short time. His col­lec­tion of 152 pho­tos of doors all over Friedrich­shain and Kreuzberg quickly emerged into a series of uni­form shots that con­veyed an over­all image of the typ­ical Ber­lin door. In it’s simple and serial approach, it reminded me of our last year’s Club Door series.

How­ever, the wealth over­whelmed me which is why I decided that these pho­tos couldn’t waste away on David’s phone. All sorts of doors: wide doors, nar­row doors, tall doors, low doors, simple one-piece doors, fold­ing doors, wooden doors and metal doors, roll-up doors, gar­age doors, clean doors and most com­mon: dirty, tagged and sprayed doors, where many people left their signs. Some­times the doors would be that densely covered, they’d almost blend in with the facade.

Enough said – enjoy this small extract from David’s splen­did photo series, which you can also enjoy in its enter­ity and get a glimpse at his port­fo­lio.