Wall to Wall

India

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
- Helen Rowland

Karelia, Russia

Vietnam

Walls enclose us, exclude us
Keep us in, keep us out
Listen
Watch
Give testimony, bear witness
I was here.

Cambodia

My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!
- Langston Hughes

Celebration at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany

“There are four kinds of people in the world…
Those who build walls.
Those who protect walls.
Those who breach walls.
And those who tear down walls.
Much of life is discovering who you are.
― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe

Afghanistan
“OK” indicates that landmines have been cleared

Kamdesh, Afghanistan

One of the most ancient forms of folk art is the handprint, a decorative mark that
I have photographed on walls in many parts of the world. In this house the
wood-panelled walls are covered with a series of roughly applied impressions of family members’ handprints.

Yemen

Walls are the publishers of the poor.
- Eduardo Galeano

Afghanistan

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls …
- Paul Simon

India

Nepal

New York, USA

New York, USA

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

China

Chiang Mai, Thailand

…Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t
love a wall …
- Robert Frost

Duomo di Orvieto, Italy

Tibet

A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . .
If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races,
their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors,
then a huge number of people will perish in this century.
- President Bill Clinton

Steve McCurry at the Great Wall of China near Beijing, China