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Essay and photographs by Peter Cunningham 1991

When the Berlin Wall fell and the hopes of the world began to rise, I began to wonder how societies which had been under strict authoritarian rule might now reshape themselves. In the East, the horizens of people's vision was restricted brutally through rigid ideology and abject fear; these functioned like blinders on a horse to channel people's energies into socially desirable activities. In the West, these steering mechanisms are more difficult to identify, but they function as well or better. These "blinders for humans" are what I set out to photograph.

B L I N D E R S

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