Artist Suzy Van Zehlendorf, born in 1980 in the working district of Berlin-Wedding, chose a Kolo Newport photo album to create this work. Suzy faced some difficult challenges growing up, but Suzy always knew she was an artist. It took time for others to notice her artistic talent. Today, she has been named one of Germany’s most influential mentally challenged artists.

Suzy on her work displayed in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition:

For Kolo, I looked at Berlin from a historic perspective; the planes that flew food into Berlin during the 1948 airlift, Marx and Engels, and Nefertiti, whose bust recently was relocated to the New Museum in Berlin. The poultry, of course, are the people, the masses of people living in Berlin. It's like one big chicken coop. That is my perspective of Berlin.

To see more photos of this project, go here.

For more on Suzy Van Zehlendorf, go here.

For other Berlin-themed Kolo books, go here and here.

-Kate