Jules Spinatsch - PROTEST PARTY PRACTICE

Jules Spinatsch brought his camera to the Street Parades in Zurich in 1995, 1996, and 1997. He felt strongly that he was taking part in something new. Today, it is clear that this was indeed a special and historically specific moment: a time of new beginnings after the fall of the Berlin Wall and just before digitisation, the transition from analogue to digital photography. The resulting pictures mostly depict individuals and small groups; a portrayal of the photographer's own generation that evokes a lifestyle free of mobile phones and social media, when young bodies were still barely marked by tattoos and fun and freedom were associated with demands for peace and tolerance.