I: Itineraries

NOTES FROM THE PERIPHERY
Traveling to places linked by the 17th and 18th century Triangular Trade, a progenitor of global commerce that brought 12 million slaves to the New World and in many ways laid the foundations for Modernity. Photographs are of homes in Nantes (France), of Laventille, the shantytown neighboring Trinidad's capital, and of a tourist excursion in Senegal. (2000 - 2003)

COMMON PLACES
"Common Places" is about how cultural identity is manifested in ordinary urban spaces. Selecting four typical contemporary European cities that range in size from small town to small city, Mikael Levin photographed the way traces of each city's distinctive history mix with the everyday, reflecting not only current cultural and economic cross-influences but also an ambiguity about the past and the future. The cities are: Katrineholm (Sweden), Thessaloniki (Greece), Erfurt (Germany), and Cambrai (France). (1996-2000).

WAR STORY
In 1944-45 an American war correspondent, Meyer Levin embarked on a journey through Europe. His assignment was to seek out the remnants of Jewish communities, to cover the "Jewish story". Sharing a Jeep with him was French photographer Eric Schwab. Schwab was photographing the war. He was also on a personal mission, searching for his mother who had been deported in 1943. (1995 - 1996)

BORDERS
A look at borders for their changing political significance and symbolic value. How borders leave their trace in the landscape, how we experience borders, and what borders mean (depending on who you are). (1993).

II: Places