Since the Schengen Agreement 1985, restrictions on moving between European countries and borders have slowly been erased. Netherlands-based photographer Valerio Vincenzo decided to document this change in his series “Borderline, the Frontiers of Peace,” a project especially poignant today as the EU struggles with the immigrant crisis.
“With the help of a GPS and detailed maps, I have conducted many trips along these “erased” borderlines, intending to capture the essence of these now-peaceful crossings,” writes Vincenzo. “Even if sometimes these pictures have been taken thousands of km away from each other, they all provide images that are far from the stereotype that we tend to associate with the notion of the border. What is a border anyway?”
In 2012, the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.” Can we make the peace last?
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01. Latvia And Estonia
02. Lithuania And Latvia
03. Germany And Poland
04. Poland And Lithuania
05. Belgium And Netherlands
06. Norway, Finland, And Sweden
07. Slovakia And Poland
08. Portugal And Spain
09. Bulgaria And Romania
10. Germany And Poland
11. Netherlands, Germany, And Belgium
12. France And Germany
13. Switzerland And Italy
14. France And Italy
15. Germany And Austria
16. Germany And Austria
17. Romania And Bulgaria
18. The Czech Republic And Poland
19. Austria, Switzerland, And Germany
20. Poland And Slovakia
21. Italy And Austria
22. Sweden And Finland
23. Germany And Denmark
24. Bulgaria And Romania
25. Switzerland And Italy
26. Austria And The Czech Republic
27. Slovenia And Italy
28. Germany And The Czech Republic
29. Bulgaria And Greece
30. Hungary And Austria
31. France And Belgium
32. France And Switzerland
33. Spain And France
34. Luxembourg And Belgium
35. Poland And The Czech Republic
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