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Images on eastern Germany: football, borders and memories (12 photos)
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Shots from a Paris-based Italian photographer who documents memory and eastern German heroes, from FC Magdeburg to border(line) villages and decaying city sites. Her solo exhibition in Paris opens on 18 March 2010
![Riesenrad ('Merry-go-round')](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/Riesenrad.jpeg)
Italian photographer Chiara Dazi's oldest project dates from between 2006-2009, when she captured decrepit sites like the Plenterwald amusement parc and the palace of the republic. Her focus is on their correlation with public memory
![GDR football](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/090917dazic09.jpeg)
Her next project shifts focus to a memory from GDR (German democratic republic) times: their once-most famous football club from the east, FC Magdeburg
!['1974'](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/091012dazic07.jpeg)
The team's greatest success remains crystallised in 1974 at the European cup winner's cup (UEFA champion's league) final against defending champions AC Milan
![Magdeburg and football](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/090922dazic06.jpeg)
'Football is a prodigy of our times,' explains Dazi
![Tradition in east Germany](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/091114dazic06.jpeg)
Her photos look at what tradition in Magdeburg means for its identity as an eastern German city today
![Sieben Linden](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/SiebenLinden02.jpeg)
Memory crops up in Dazi's third project (2009). She marks twenty years of the fall of the Berlin wall with a trip down the east German border. Pictured: Sieben Lindon
![Sieben Linden](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/Sieben_Linden01.jpeg)
Her trip uncovers an ecovillage, built in 1997 and housing 120
![Ebersbach](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/Ebersbach01.jpeg)
Former textile hub Ebersbach, on the Czech border, lies almost empty today
![Ebersbach](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/Ebersbach02.jpeg)
You do however see many second generation Vietnamese people; between 1980-1989, around 70, 000 workers came to East Germany to work in the textile industry
![Görlitz](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/Goerlitz01.jpeg)
The Unesco world heritage site is the Mallorca of the border: the press has popularly branded it 'Germany's pensioner paradise'
![Görlitz](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/Goerlitz02.jpeg)
Görlitz is in the far east of the country
![Live in Paris](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/2010/mar 10/Chiara Dazi expo/FCM_flyer.jpeg)
Catch Chiara Dazi's exhibition, with the Paris-based Agraph photographer collective, at 138 rue Lecourbe, metro Vaugirard, Paris, until 18 June 2010 (From Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30-19.30)