Monday, June 7, 2010

International Pillow Fight Day, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

FRANKFURT - APRIL 2010. International pillow fight in Frankfurt.  17th of April, 2010. Frankfurt, Germany.April 17, 2010. The following took place between 4 pm and 5 pm. A crowd of young German and international citizens silently gather in Hauptwache square in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Among the calmly here and there wandering youth, one notices a certain degree of similarity: the same weapon, of different dimensions, colours and level of hardness. But it is one and the same with each and every of them. The smiles and looks they throw each other and the passers by without uttering a single word should not be underestimated.


FRANKFURT - APRIL 2010. International pillow fight in Frankfurt.  17th of April, 2010. Frankfurt, Germany.The time soon reveals the secret of the gathering.
With the toll of the church clock the flash mob breaks into a fight that will never be forgotten in the history of the city - a tough, shocking, bloody, life and death street pillow fight.
Producing the horror of screams and beats, fierce horde raises tons of feathers into the sky. Youngsters with red cheeks keep running out and into the dusty feathery mass.
There is a photo reporter with Sony A900 digital camera to be seen cutting the crowd. Daring initiative. Will he survive the battle, to pass the world the true story of the bloody day?
Yes, he will. An hour later, he will come back, all white with horror and feathers but still alive to tell us with his photos how it was to be in the middle of the international pillow fight.

FRANKFURT - APRIL 2010. International pillow fight in Frankfurt.  17th of April, 2010. Frankfurt, Germany.
FRANKFURT - APRIL 2010. International pillow fight in Frankfurt.  17th of April, 2010. Frankfurt, Germany.