--- title: "Asien, Mittel- und Südamerika" date: 2022-12-06 last_modified: 2022-12-06T17:37:48+01:00 generated_at: 2026-06-08T22:16:01Z url: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/story/asien-mittel-und-sudamerika" description: "Photo articles of Bernd-Horst Sefzik: Part 3" image: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sefzik-06-kolumbien-1973.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # Asien, Mittel- und Südamerika ![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/06._columbien_1973_sefzik-300x199.jpg) ## NBI photo articles of Bernd-Horst Sefzik ## Part 3 The NBI took into account the global view and thus imparted to readers in the GDR the feeling of being part of this. Many reports covered Cuba’s socialist development or the suffering and the dreams of the people in the so-called “backyard of the USA”. Extraordinary are the images of a four-part travel report through Northern Vietnam and a visit to Iraq after the end of the First Gulf War (Iran-Iraq War) 1988. ## CUBA ![Eine Zuckerrohrschlägerin](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/02._cuba_13-178_20-2-78_sefzik_0-205x300.jpg) ![eine Frau wäscht die Wäsche im Fluss](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/03._cuba_13-178_20-2-78_sefzik-300x204.jpg) ## BACKGROUND 19 years after the socialist revolution on Cuba, the NBI reports in connection with the *XI Youth and Students World Sports Festival* on Cuba’s economic development and the socialist commonwealth. Sefzik travels across the entire island: *Cuba – building site and example, NBI 23/78.* ## ECUADOR ## BACKGROUND In a multi-part report, the NBI examines the social hardships in the so-called “backyard of the USA” and spoke with people about their wishes and dreams: *Dreams in the Andes, NBI 27/73,* and *Quito – capital on the equator, NBI 7/74.* ## COLOMBIA ![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/06._columbien_1973_sefzik-300x199.jpg) ![eine Frau trägt ihr Kind auf dem Rücken](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/05._columbien_1973_sefzik-300x199.jpg) ## BACKGROUND The images are part of the aforementioned report on living conditions in Latin America: “They don't want to die” ## VIETNAM ![Frau hält ein Porträt des Verstorbenen](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/9._vietnam_bild5-witwe_6-75_sefzik-300x199.jpg) ## BACKGROUND In the year after the Paris Peace Agreement, in 1974 Sefzik travelled through the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and, in a four-part piece, reported on the life of the people in the ravaged country, reconstruction, losses and new happiness: *Wedding in Hanoi, NBI 5/75; The man who emerged from hell, NBI 6/75; His father was still a coolie, NBI 7/75; Virility and eye of a woman, NBI 8/75.* ![Im Vordergrund sind ein Mann und ein Kind zu sehen, die ein Fahrrad halten.](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/10._vietnam_bild3-vihn_7-75_sefzik-296x300.jpg) ![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/08._vietnam_bild4-soldaten_5-75_sefzik.jpg) ## IRAQ ![eine Frau steht inmitten von militärischem Gerät](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/11._irak_3-10-88_sefzik_0-204x300.jpg) ![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13._irak_3-10-88_sefzik-300x203.jpg) ## BACKGROUND Two months after the end of the First Gulf War between Iran and Iraq, Sefzik reported for the NBI from the 2nd International Babylon Festival. After eight years of fighting, Iraq strove for international flair and regeneration, culturally and also from a tourism perspective: Frankincense in Babylon – festival between Euphrates and Tigris, NBI 46/88. ## The photo series - [ ![Straßenszene, im Vordergrund zwei Frauen](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sefzik-09-finnland-1984-197x300.jpg) ### Europa Photo articles of Bernd-Horst Sefzik. Part 1. Short-Story, 3 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/story/europa) - [ ![Drei Soldaten in Schlammwüste vor Raketenbehältern](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sefzik-06-kapustin-jar-1988-300x206.jpg) ### Sowjetunion Photo articles of Bernd-Horst Sefzik: Part 2 Short-Story, 3 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/story/sowjetunion) - [ ![Auf dem Schwarz-Weiß-Foto ist der Fotograf Bernd-Horst Sefzik zu sehen, er trägt eine Brille und ein helles Hemd, in der linken Hand hält er einen Selbstauslöser, er schaut direkt in die Kamera](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/sefzik-portrait_0-243x300.jpg) ### Bernd-Horst Sefzik Adoptive Berliner Bernd-Horst Sefzik (1942–1994) made a name for himself as a photo journalist in the GDR and beyond. In the “Neue Berliner Illustrierte”, his reports contained striking images from across the globe. Artikel, 4 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/bernd-horst-sefzik)