A motorist who picked up two passengers at Luxembourg's Findel Airport was involved in a car chase in Germany on Thursday The incident began when the driver evaded a police checkpoint at the Franco-German border on the urban motorway 620 near Saarbrücken German media outlet NTV reported that the driver had collected two individuals at Findel Airport before heading toward Germany After initially pretending to slow down at the border the driver suddenly accelerated onto the motorway nearly striking a police officer during the evasion attempt with the driver running red lights and triggering speed cameras as they led authorities to Friedrichsthal approximately 15 kilometres from the border The driver fled on foot into a nearby forest and remains at large were apprehended and revealed that they had been picked up at Findel Airport on their way to France The Inter-European Division reports that the Oberhavel Adventist School in Friedrichsthal Germany celebrated a significant milestone with the grand opening of its new building marking the culmination of two-and-a-half years of dedicated construction efforts a project spearheaded by Advent-Wohlfahrtswerk E.V. the social welfare arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany represents a major step forward for the school which first opened its doors in 2006 with just seven students in a charming managing director of the school’s sponsoring organization Adventschule Oberhavel ‘gGmbH’ reflected on the journey from those humble beginnings to the present not only preserves part of the old structure but also introduces a modern touch with its spacious entrance square Principal Anita Michor shared insights into the construction phase highlighting how it became a real-life learning adventure for the students and teachers The process was skillfully integrated into the curriculum making it an educational experience in itself emphasizing the importance of education in the context of the Protestant faith and human dignity as a part of the worldwide network of Seventh-day Adventist educational institutions focuses on the holistic development of body Oberhavel Adventist School functions as a full-day general secondary school with a primary section It adheres to the Brandenburg state curriculum while offering a more flexible learning environment and a broad array of afternoon activities With small class sizes of a maximum of 17 students the school prides itself on providing individualized attention to each student This new building marks a new era for Oberhavel Adventist School promising enhanced learning experiences and opportunities for its students and a continued commitment to its educational ethos To comment, click here. We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and analyze our traffic This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again Frej’s photographs of ancient Maya ruins opened at Santa Fe’s Peyton Wright Gallery The show encompasses 33 black-and-white photographs taken over the past three years at Maya ruins in the Mexican states of Chiapas The show is notable for its many impressions of ruins few tourists have visited named for a tree the ancient Maya used to make black pigment Frej had the digital images processed as archival chromogenic silver halide prints some of which were then mounted on archival aluminum Anyone who has traveled to southern Mexico will recognize many old friends hanging on the walls like the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque or the Arch at Labná But the show is notable for its many impressions of ruins few tourists have visited the last named for a tree the ancient Maya used to make black pigment Frej’s photos give a good sense of the scrub rainforest that dominates the Yucatán Peninsula and remind us that the most visited Maya ruins are constantly cleared of encroaching vegetation The images also show how many of the ruined buildings have been reconstructed by Mexican archaeologists for motives both scientific and commercial Frej has spent a lifetime making photographs of remote peoples and places He studied photography in college and graduate school at Berkeley in the early 1970s He first visited the Southwest when he came to work with the Navajo and Hopi for the Office of Economic Opportunity founded in 1964 as part of President Lyndon B Frej took two years off to hike the entire Himalaya mountain range including performing the circumambulation of Mt Kailash in Tibet that is sacred to Buddhists He was Diplomat in Residence at the Santa Fe Institute and credits his friendship with former director Jeremy Sabloff for rekindling his interest in the ancient Maya that they use a base for photographic expeditions Frej sees the photographs in the current exhibition as inspired by images taken by the German explorer Teobert Maler a century ago Frej has visited 31 ruins Maler photographed required a three-hour drive and another three hours of hacking through the forest to find the site scientists and artists have used photography to make images of the world’s antiquities Archaeologists used photography to document their finds and European colonial officers made records of the cultural and demographic resources of far-flung empires photography is intimately bound to the rediscovery of the ancient Maya We know that within six months of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s announcement of his invention of photography the first daguerreotype outfit was brought to Mexico The Austrian diplomat Emanuel von Friedrichsthal took the first photographs of Maya ruins in 1841 when he visited sites in Campeche and Yucatán Friedrichsthal was inspired by the bestselling account Incidents of Travel in Central America attorney turned travel writer John Lloyd Stephens The British artist Frederick Catherwood accompanied Stephens and his images of Maya ruins occupy a foundational position in the history of both archaeological illustration and in the history of the way that the Maya have been represented by outsiders When Stephens and Catherwood set out for Mexico on their second expedition in October 1841 Stephens writes in the subsequent Incidents of Travel in Yucatán (1843) that the camera was a great novelty in the city of Mérida as well as in the countryside Catherwood used it as an aid to producing detailed drawings of ancient Maya art and architecture He also sketched freehand and used a camera lucida a prism that projects that which is before it onto the artist’s drawing paper Catherwood used the daguerreotypes to correct his field drawings and also to produce a deluxe set of lithographs published in 1844 no Catherwood daguerreotype has ever been identified and they are thought to have burned in a great fire that consumed the artist’s panorama and studio in July 1842 Maudslay (1850-1931) was an upper-class British traveler who made the documentation of the ancient Maya ruins and carved monuments his life’s work he returned again and again to Mexico and Central America taking large-format photographs on glass negatives he amassed an archive of thousands of photos drawings (made principally by Annie Hunter) and plaster casts of ancient Maya sculptures their accuracy and quality were such that they aided the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing Maler was one of Maudslay’s contemporaries and rivals in the game of photographing the Maya ruins When the French Emperor Napoleon III set up Maximilian of Habsburg as Mexico’s emperor in 1864 Maler joined other Austrian volunteers who traveled to Mexico to support the regime led by the Mexican president Benito Juárez After Maximilian’s defeat and execution in 1867 he was taking photos of pre-Columbian ruins Maler traveled the breadth of the country occupied by the ancient Maya For much of the period he worked for Harvard University’s Peabody Museum and his images and maps illustrated groundbreaking documentary studies of the ruins of Yaxchilan and Piedras Negras located on the Usumacinta River that divides Mexico and Guatemala Maler visited hundreds of sites Maudslay never saw and his photographic record complements the British explorer’s Many of the sculptures he documented no longer exist others have been destroyed or dismembered during widespread looting of ancient Maya ruins that continues to the present day Santa Fe has had a long romance with pre-Columbian antiquities and in this respect Frej is in good company Given the city’s proximity to significant Ancestral Puebloan ruins like those at Chaco Canyon or Bandelier National Monument and to large populations of Native Americans it is no surprise that the City Different has a long history of archaeological and anthropological photography Add to that a long list of commercial photographers who amassed archives of images of Native Americans With the founding of the School of American Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Museum of New Mexico institutional imperatives drove photographic campaigns Santa Fe’s own Jesse Nusbaum made thousands of photographs of the Ancestral Puebloan ruins of the Southwest as well as others related to School and Museum projects in Mexico and Central America Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh shot aerial photographs of ruins both in Yucatán and in the Southwest A selection of the Southwestern photos is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture paired with contemporary images of the same sites by Adriel Heisey a blurry line separates documentary and fine art The images of many photographers like the Lindberghs are now included in gallery and museum exhibitions and their work is part of a broader conversation on the history of representing other cultures Many of Maler’s photos evince a keen sense of composition though they are always shot to convey maximum information Maler also made a specialty of composite prints of stone sculptures useful when the original monument was broken He would shoot the fragments and assemble a new negative showing the sculpture as it might have looked before it was shattered by time Frej’s images of ancient Maya ruins and objects show a similar mastery of composition and situate his work firmly at the fine-art end of the taxonomy His photo of a pyramid at the city of Calakmul focuses on the staircase reducing it to a geometric compositional element Another image is a detail of a ceramic portrait from the city of Palenque The object is one of a large series of larger-than-life-size portrait on incense burners This one is a portrait of one of the kings of the city The ancient Maya were one of the few New World peoples who developed an interest in portraiture as likeness that approximates western notions though they always showed their rulers as youthful Get the highlights from Santa Fe's weekly magazine of arts Pasatiempo's most popular online content from the past seven days Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Receive a list of headlines from the latest edition of The New 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