Kai Wiedenhöfer: Wall

By Kai Wiedenhvfer

"Over a nine meter wall you cannot shake hands," says a Palestinian pensioner who lives in the shadow of Israel's growing Separation Barrier. Kai Wiedenh fer, who documented the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and has been photographing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for more than a decade, has spent the last few years documenting inhabitants of the Occupied Palestinian Territories who find themselves in the path of the barrier. He has also documented the growing barrier itself, a 650-kilometer mix of walls, fences, ditches and earth mounds that serves as a border between Israel and a projected future Palestinian entity. Working in color and black-and-white with a 6x17 cm panoramic camera, Wiedenh fer has produced depictions of the wall--and life in its lengthening shadow--that make it hard not to share his view, informed by a life in Berlin, that separation barriers do not offer real solutions to political conflict.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865211178
• ISBN13: 9783865211170
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 0.8" x 11.7"