Home and Away Author:Gerhard Stockl, Peter Sutherland, Kevin Trageser By the time Germany and Costa Rica kicked off the 2006 World Cup in Munich, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans from around the globe had descended on the host nation to cheer on their national sides and soak up the atmosphere. Among them were a group of NYC soccer players who call themselves the Chinatown Soccer Club. This book of photographs ... more »is a record of that trip. Shot by CSC members Gerhard Stochl, Peter Sutherland, and Kevin Trageser, it depicts Berlin at its soccer zenith. Beginning with a city awash in pre-match excitement and anticipation — at backyard cook-outs, in father-son kick-arounds — the photographs move on to capture the soccer fever visible in stadiums, crowded public viewing areas and the pained faces of fans awash in the madness. They end, appropriately, with the euphoria’s bittersweet aftermath. This is not a standard documentary of a soccer tournament, but an attempt at transmitting, visually, the influence soccer can have on a place and its people. Author Description: Gerhard Stochl grew up in Vienna, Austria. Stochl’s job as a skateboard photographer took him around the world with stints in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Rio de Janeiro. Now based in New York City, Gerhard shoots for glossy magazines and various commercial clients. Peter Sutherland is a filmmaker and photographer. Sutherland has put out a few photography books: Autograf, Pedal (powerHouse Books) Coming Home (PAM Books) and GAME (Nieves Books). He lives and works in NYC. Kevin Trageser has lived and worked in New York City for almost a decade, shooting portraits for magazines including i-D, Spin and Tokion. His work has been exhibited at Design Commission (Seattle), 255 Gallery (New York) and Colette (Paris).« less