Susan Kuklin

Looking at this website, you might have noticed that my husband and I love to travel. As a photographer, I was lucky to do many assignments in far off lands. Once, on assignment in the Algarve, Portugal, I photographed the wonderful Moorish chimneys that dot the countryside. The walls that held the chimneys were beautiful and interesting and graphic. I became fascinated by the shapes, history, and ideas that are attached to this simple word: WALL. Wherever I travel, I take time out to photograph walls.

So, what is a wall, anyway? A fortress. A barrier. A fence. It can keep you in and can keep you out. It is something we can see and something we can feel.

LETS GET DOWN . . .
Where are your walls? Are they in your room? In your neighborhood? In your heart? Your soul?

These are but a few of the questions I hope you will think about when you read FROM WALL TO WALL.

From The Washington Post
History is full of walls, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall to the possibility, now being touted, of a wall between Israel and Palestine. Some are designed to keep people out, some to keep people in. They can be barriers, boundaries, backdrops or art spaces. To make this book, photographer Susan Kuklin took pictures of walls around the world: an old stone wall in the French Dordogne, the floor-to-ceiling glass walls of a Manhattan skyscraper, sand ramparts on a beach, the fortifications of the Tower of London, the decorated cave-walls of Lascaux, and many others. The result is much more than a photo album; it is a minature philosophical inquiry.

Kirkus says that "Kuklin's thoughtful exploration of these human-made creations is sure to inspire discussion."