"We used the Wall as a kind of defence."
Rab GP Lewin was born in New South Wales, Australia, in 1967 and grew up in the Scottish highlands. He moved to Berlin in 1992, living in squats and trailer camps. He remembers the trailer camp at the East Side Gallery as a temporary, anarchistic settlement, without rules, without organisation, and open to everyone – a space where residents could and did live out their creativity, but which was also rife with internal conflict. A photographer, he recorded life in the trailer camp with his camera, producing rare images of a scene which usually refuses to be photographed and which he himself describes as the "least wanted in Europe": People who built their own sound systems and partied to punk, techno and digital hardcore, travelling across Europe in convoys and living in abandoned and disused places. Rab GP Lewin now lives in Ardnamurchan, Scotland.
