Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1981-06-28
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004364

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed label: 7631//27…Diksmuide, BELGIUM//June 28, 1981…Each / June Flemish nationalists made a pilgrimage to Diksmuide / in Flanders to commemorate the Flemish soldiers who fell / in World War I. Fiery rhetoric aimed at the hated / Walloons, the Flemings’ adversaries in language-torn Belgium, / has always been as much a part of the event as the call / for peace among nations. In recent years the pilgrimage has / become a focus for the international Neo-Nazi movement. Here / a young girl, a member of the “Voorpost,” an extremely / right-wing Flemish youth organization, holds a anner bearing / the seagull which is the group’s symbol; stamped: [copyright] / HENNING CHRISTOPH / Kortumstr. 61 / 4300 Essen 1 – Germany / (0201) 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postcheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1981 / HENNING CHRISTOPH / from BLACK STAR; typed label: [German inscription]; handwritten: 7631//27

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Belgium; Bird; Close up; Day; Demonstration; Face; Flag; Flemish Movement; Full frame; Glasses; March; Nationalism; Outdoors; Ponytail; Sad; Smile; Social group; Woman
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / FLEMISH NATIONALIST DEMONSTRATION
Retouching: N