A 20-year veteran of newspaper reporting, Montaigne covered the collapse of the Soviet Union as the Moscow correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer.Gerd Ludwig has shot assignments for Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Geo, Stern, Spiegel, and National Geographic magazine, and has worked in more than 70 countries. Since the late 1980s, Ludwig's work has focused on the changes in Germany, the former Soviet Union, and other parts of Eastern Europe. He has produced more than ten assignments for National Geographic on this subject.