Justice

A Photographer's Journey Along the Walls Dividing Conflict Zones

Lessons found in the borderlands of Israel/Palestine, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland.
A boy walks home from school along the 26-foot-tall concrete Separation Barrier between al-Ram and Jerusalem.Kate Trenerry

In early 2012, Kate Trenerry boarded a bus at the edge of the old city of Jerusalem. She was on a mission to photograph walls.

One of those walls was the 430-mile-long Israel West Bank barrier, which cuts through the border town of Jabel Mukaber, dividing the Israeli and Palestinian settlements.