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Vintage silver print 34,3 x 22,7 cm (13.5 x 8.9 in) Signed and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, "Pontis Photo" stamp and photographer's studio stamp on the reverse LITERATURE Ulrich Pohlmann (ed.), Thomas Hoepker. Photographien 1955-2005, Munich 2005, p. 246. Thomas Hoepker is among the most successful presentday German photographers. From 1964 to 1989 Hoepker worked for the magazine Stern; from 2002 to 2007 he was President of the Magnum Agency, whose full member he became in 1989 - the first German photographer to do so. When he visited Borneo in 1964, the world's third-largest island was embroiled in a territorial conflict between Indonesia and Malaysia which was to continue until 1966. During this journey, the present photograph was taken, depicting children of the Iban tribe. The twelve children are lined up on a steep stairway leading to a typical longhouse, in which an entire village usually lives together and which can be several hundred metres long. These stilt houses constructed of bamboo contain all the living, working and storage quarters. This photograph, like many of Hoepker's images, stands in the tradition of an involved style of reportage which is interested in people - a style which had its second heyday immediately after 1945.