Pig Felix of physiotherapist Daan Vermeulen lies amid elderly people in a senior care facility on April 12, 2011 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images)
A young lady blows a balloon during a federal conference of the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) on December 3, 2011 in Offenbach, Germany. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images)
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union.
Opera singers perform in the pool “AquAria PALAOA” during a rehearsal at the swimming pool Neukoelln on April 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The premiere of the underwater opera AquAria PALAOA is on May 1st. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
Street fighting in Berlin between Government troops and Spartacists, during the Spartacist uprising which followed Germany's defeat in World War I. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1919
Photographer Martin Schoeller examines the visual nuances of twins. Schoeller was born in Munich, Germany in 1968, studied photography at Lette Verein in Berlin and lives in New York. (Photo by Martin Schoeller)
In the photo series “Triptychs of Strangers,” Germany-based street photographer Adde Adesokan takes photographs of strangers and creates wonderful triptychs that capture the stranger’s personality.