'Wall on Wall': Giant Portraits of World's Barriers Go on Display on Berlin Wall Deborah Cole - Middle East Online
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The exhibition will be open for two months, in July and August 2013, and will be open for free to everybody 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is expected that more than 200,000 people will visit that stretch of the Berlin Wall in the central months of the summer. (wallonwall.org)

Giant portraits of the world's tensest borders went on display Tuesday on the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, in what organizers called a protest underlining the futility of barriers to resolve conflict.

The "Wall on Wall" project by German photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer features 36 panoramas taken in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Cyprus, the West Bank, Morocco, North and South Korea and the border zone between the United States and Mexico.

The color prints have been glued along 364 metres of the Berlin Wall, which divided the German city for 28 years until it was toppled in a bloodless revolution in 1989.

"Walls are no solution for today's major political problems and I think the Berlin Wall is the best proof of that," he told reporters.

Wiedenhoefer, 47, captured the images on more than 20 trips between 2003 and 2012 and said he fought with Berlin authorities for five years until winning permission for the open-air display.

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