“Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled “The Berlin Reunion“. Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by “land and sea monsters”. The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult – but successful – expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart. I’ll let the photos below tell the rest of the story.” – quoted from The Big Picture.

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Boston.com does this great column called The Big Picture: News Stories in Photographs. I think the function of the column is pretty self explanatory, but just incase, it’s a platform for telling news through photo journalism. And a place that will blow your mind with beautiful and super relevant photographs. To wrap the year up, The Big Picture created a 120-photo Narrative, Highlighting major events of 2008. I have selected a few of my favorite moments  to share with you here and inspire you to pay Boston.com to see the full story of 2008, The Year in Photographs.

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