Demetrius Freeman

One: I don't speak German. And two: There's a heavy neo-Nazi population in the area, i'm black, so traveling to that part of Germany was, well, very intimidating.

Demetrius Freeman

But when I got there, I found the issue was much bigger, everyone... by Demetrius Freeman

But when I got there, I found the issue was much bigger, everyone was going through it.

Demetrius Freeman

It promoted this perfect couple and a perfect world, when it really wasn't perfect, the town felt eerie.

Demetrius Freeman

There was an argument, and they told us to get out of their way, there was a lot of yelling. Finally they moved and continued yelling things as we biked away.

Demetrius Freeman

It's really cool ... I feel like the job presents different challenges that don't exist in newspaper and other forms, you have to find a way to make photographing someone at a podium interesting.

Demetrius Freeman

That's really what I love to do -- just capturing someone's character in one frame, i find it very character-revealing. It's very subtle. And l love that.

Demetrius Freeman