Lost in the Woods

From 1984 to 1989 Costantinos Pittas took a solo journey across Europe and he shot 30000 blackandwhite photographs with a Minox 35mm compact camera His aim was to capture the human core of the people living on both sides of Europes Iron Curtain His last picture was taken in Berlin a day after the Wall came down As he was motivated by the dream for a united Europe he thought that his project made no sense after the end of the Cold War He stashed the negatives away in a box and forgot about them For a good 25 years