Published: May 30th, 2023,
Last updated: May 30th, 2023
Next week marks once again the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. US photographer Jeff Widener was in Beijing in 1989 when the violent suppression of the student protests was imminent. He managed to take a photo there that went down in history: He photographed the „Tank Man“. Fabian Peltsch spoke with Widener about how the iconic photo came to be and how he perceived the dramatic days in Beijing at the time.