The new flesh / Das neue Fleisch, Turkish and Kurdish butcher shops in Berlin-Kreuzberg.


Xiaopeng Zhou, born in 1985 in Guangzhou, has studied art the the Academy of his hometown until 2008, but is now living in Germany and about to complete his Master exam at Academy of Art Berlin-Weissensee. The pictorial is an excerpt from his 76-part series of reportage drawings created within four weeks – starting from this year’s Bayram festivities, the fast breaking at the end of Ramadan – in Turkish and Kurdish butcher shops in Berlin-Kreuzberg.