When the Berlin Wall came down, my mother was there. One of the photographs we included in Scattered Lives shows her standing inside the breached wall. Years later, that photograph still captures something the history books cannot: what it looked like to stand inside a moment that had seemed impossi...

After a long period of gathering, checking, and preserving the material behind Scattered Lives, we’ve reached an important new stage: the design phase. Much of the work so far has involved gathering, organizing, checking, and preserving the material behind the book — family memories, Moh’s Baby Boek...

The Notes Register will be a place for essays, research, documentary writing, photography, and other work connected to history, place, memory, and careful observation from Berlijn Lusink. Some pieces may begin with family records, photographs, letters, or archival material. Others may grow from loca...