With Different Eyes: Germany in the 1960s

Johannes Haile

The exhibition With Different Eyes, sponsored by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), is curated by Meskerem Assegued from Ethiopia. The young photographer Johannes Haile captured the mood in Germany from a variety of perspectives. His images tell entire stories about the things very different people have in common. Haile’s photographs do not comply with ordinary expectations, but rather narrate things from his own perspective. In 1963, while the world was busy with decolonization, communism, the civil rights movement, the assassination of Kennedy, and the hippies, Haile documented the everyday life of simple people who prevented the wheels of industrialization from grinding to a halt.
In the 1950s, Johannes Haile was the first African student permitted to graduate in photography at the University of Southern California (USC). In the early 1960s, he worked as a photographer on commission for the United Nations.