Wall 2013 By Kai Wiedenhofer In 1989, I photographed the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the most exciting, positive political even Ive ever witnessed, and this experience of history in the making moved me deeply. I believe it represented the end of walls as political instruments. Yet, on the contrary, walls have had a big renaissance. Barriers have gone up in the US, Europe, and the Middle East in the aftermath of political, economic, religious, and ethnic conflicts. When construction began on the Seperation Barrier in occupied Palestine, I grew concerned; I documented the process between 2003-10, and published a book, Wall. Walls present no solutions. The Berlin Wall was proof that peace begins only when they fall. Barriers embody human weakness, peoples inability to communicate with each other. Trapped behind walls, the cliches about, and prejudices against, the enemy mushroom with hardly any relation to reality. Kai Wiedenhofer
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:05:18 +0000