Two photographers have started a website offering free images about opposition to nuclear waste dumping in the north German village of Gorleben.

They’ll start with the trek of 30 farm tractors, to be joined by more later, from Gorleben to the capital, Berlin, beginning Saturday. They’ll be doing about 500 km there and back, passing through several nuclear dump sites.
The convoy will have a kitchen car, mobile cinema and green power sign-up facility along.

They’ll be on their way to an anti-nuclear demonstration in the capital expected to draw thousands of people from all over Germany.

Karin Behr is a trainee press photographer who lives in Hamburg and the Gorleben area. She photographed last year’s shipment of spent nuclear fuel to Gorleben from France.

Andreas Conradt has been a press photographer for more than 20 years. He lives in the Gorleben area.

They’re calling their service “PubliXviewinG“ and aim to supply media and movements with professional picture and text material free of charge – “but not for nothing”. The two are closely connected to the Gorleben-based resistance group, Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow - Dannenberg e.V.

“From now on – i.e. with the start of the anti-nuclear trek to Berlin – the agency’s pictures will be identifiably sorted on the Internet. Newsrooms, initiatives and private people can download the pictures in high resolution and use them free of charge,” they write.

The address is www.publixviewing.de. Anyone interested can register there for the newsletter which will inform every time new pictures are available.

“We’re looking forward to good cooperation with you. Best regards from the Wendland,” (the name of the Gorleben area).