Taking photographs of things that stop me in my tracks has been a passion of mine for several years now. I was walking down Tauentzienstrasse in Berlin when I looked up at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, a church built in the 1890s that was bombed during World War II. A huge billboard towered up in front of the bombed out church building, and it struck me as an image of the church struggling in a post-modern world. It’s remained one of my favorite photos. That photo of the Gedächtnis-Kirche--along with my own heritage of Germans settling in Texas—led to the...more