As barriers continue to rise up all over Europe, a new documentary photography exhibition investigates walls, fences and defence lines and the dramas on either side of them
• Walls of Power: Man-made Barriers Throughout Europe is at Les Rencontres d’Arles, France, from 1 July to 25 August, 2019
Tue 16 Jul 2019 07.00 BST
The Wall of Europe, Spain, 2014
Young Africans try to climb the double fence that separates Africa from Europe, near Beni Enza on the border of Spanish exclave Melilla
Photograph: Sergi Cámara
Roma Wall, Michalovce, Slovakia, 2010
A group of Roma walk towards a concrete wall in Michalovce, eastern Slovakia. About 50 families on a housing estate have financed its erection to separate the local Roma camp from their residential area
Photograph: Attila Balázs
The Fence of Gibraltar, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, 2016
A British customs officer checks the hole made by tobacco smugglers in the border fence that separates the UK from Spain
Photograph: Arnau Bach
The Salpa Line, Finland, 2017
Close to Virolahti, the Salpa Line is a fortified defence line built in 1940-41 to protect Finland from the entry of armoured tanks from Russia. It is 225km long and made of 350,000 stones
Photograph: Rocco Rorandelli/TerraProject
Crossing Borders, Greece, 2015
Refugees waiting in a queue for registration in the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos
Photograph: István Bielik
The Wall, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2015
Cyprus has been divided by the UN buffer zone, the 180km-long Green Line, since 1974. The houses and shops inside the zone became half ruins. After a nearly 30-year ban on crossings, the travel restrictions across the dividing line significantly eased in 2003
Photograph: Tijen Erol
Boundary between Ukraine and Russia, near Zhuravlevka, 2017
In 2014, after the beginning of the conflict with the Russian-backed separatists, Ukraine announced that it would build a wall on the border
Photograph: Michele Borzoni/TerraProject
From the Peacelines I series, North Belfast, 1994
Photograph: Frankie Quinn