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Kai Wiedenh\u00f6fer, born in Germany in 1966, received a MA in photography and editorial design from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen and studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria. Since 1989 the focus of his work is mainly the Middle East. He has received numerous awards, as the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Alexia Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding, World Press Photo Awards, the Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. He has published four books with Steidl \u201cPerfect Peace\u201c (2002) , \u201cWall\u201c (2007) and \u201cThe Book of Destruction\u201c (2010) which was exhibited as a solo exhibition in the Mus\u00e9e d\u00b4Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2013 his fourth volume \u201cCONFRONTIER \u201c about separation walls worldwide was published. The photographs were exhibited in the show WALLONWALL on 364m of the Berlin Wall. In summer 2016 this show was succeeded by WARonWALL about the war in Syria which is accompanied by the volume \u201cSyrian Collateral\u201c. In December 2016 he received the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal from International Human Rights League in Berlin.<\/p>\n