"In March 2010, I started taking photographs from my hotel window whenever I found myself on assignment outside of my Berlin base," writes AFP's Berlin-based photographer John MacDougall.

"After a couple of years of shooting the views out of my hotel windows, it occurred to me that the 'dullness,' not necessarily of the views themselves, but of the process involved, came into sharp contrast with the photographs I was producing for the wire on any particular assignment."