News on the hour from the theatre of war, special broadcasts on all channels, countless background reports - what we know about the wars of our times we know through the media. With their images and discourses they style our assessment and judgement of any political, military, but also social situation. Bu the images do not deliver what they promise: 3sat knows of a Battle of Illusions, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk even grants the camera the status of a weapon and criticizes that the "public sleepwalking", in other words ‚free public opinion making', is being reinforced by "media anesthetics". No war has been accompanied by the media like the war against Saddaam Hussein in the spring of 2003. Yet even, or especially, the over 500 correspondents who accompanied the American troops as "embedded" journalists could offer no contradiction to their critics skeptical attitude. We saw the images of the attackers in real time, but the informational value was practically zero.

Alexander Paul Englert counters this with individual statements In his series Points of View.
He portrayed fifteen Iraqis and fifteen US-Americans and lets them take position on a war that is still often euphemistically described as a ‚conflict'. At the age of 36, Ghazwan accuses a regime for stealing his youth, and Christopher quotes the doctor Deepak Chopra with "Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind ... What we sow is what we reap."
But not only the statements hold the viewer and draw him to the next portrait, pensive and curious. The concentrated calm in expression, the attention in the eyes illustrate that the people documented here are confidently voicing their opinion. Maybe that is why most of the portrayed appear to transcend their DIN A3 format frame. At first the pictures seem like hand-tinted, historical photographs. But the subtle colors let each portrait, in spite of its expressive individuality, be linked to the next in sequence, not one is out of line, and thus each statement can be examined also in terms of its universal validity.

With Points of View Englert continues his photographic search for expression of individuality. His exhibition in the Goethe Institute Frankfurt will be brought up-to-date with further portraits by, for example, Paulus Böhmer, author and painter, Irmgard von Lehsten, member of the German Committee for UNICEF, and Peter Rühe, founder of the GandhiServe Foundation in Berlin, the actor and cabaret artist Michael Quast, the publisher KD Wolff, Ms. Anne-Marie Steigenberger, as well as the cartoonist F. C. Waechter.