You photograph with light, but you write with your blood. That’s why the title of the book you are holding features white and red. Light and writing, that is, photography. I write to accompany what I saw, the images. What can I write alongside an image? Perhaps a memory, an experience, a fleeting thought, a short story. With as few words as possible; too many words don’t help. If I can't say something on one page, I won't say it on fifty or five hundred. Eyes—in the West—scan and read from left to right. The same applies to this book: the eyes read a short text on the left page and then move to the right page, pausing for a moment on the photograph while the words fade away. This small pause is everything; it is the revelation. Speech and image together create something new, something that did not exist before in either part alone. 120 short texts and 135 photographs in exquisite duotone printing. A unique conversation between written words and images, and a rare testimony: Athens of the 1980s and a great journey through the countries of Cold War Europe. A journey that ended in Berlin, the day the Wall fell.