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Gernot Huber

Gernot Huber

Even after 50 years, Gernot Huber’s pictures of the Ford strike are still deeply moving and stimulate interest about this time and the fates of the people depicted.

The Cologne photographer was a personal friend of Baha Targün. They occasionally worked together on the night shift at a factory in Langenfeld to make ends meet. They lost contact after the strike, but Huber continued to devote himself intensively to the migrants and their families in the following years. He observed their everyday lives, their domestic situations and their children. Later he was involved in the Cologne-based photo agency laif, which operates worldwide. Today, he lives in seclusion with his wife in a Rhineland village near Bonn.

Gernot Huber has generously made his photos available for this project. We have put together a small selection of these photos in a gallery below.