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Yazan Khalili: On Love and Other Landscapes

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Lara Khaldi invited me to produce work for Jerusalem 2011 on the theme “About Language”. I had been working on landscapes for several years, with Landscape of Darkness, Area C, In Exile, and wanted to continue researching along this line. I also wanted to do something with...

20.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Carolle Benitah: Photos souvenirs

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I began taking pictures in the early 2000s following an intense period of questioning in my life. I started keeping a photographic journal. Day after day, in a kind of fever, I documented my life, my family, my child. Behind this desire to create loomed a need for clarification with ...

14.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Mohamed Ezz ”Masr Station”

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I started this project in 2008 during a trip to Upper Egypt. I thought of the place as the only centralized place that brought together every type of Egyptian. People with different cultures and accents - and sometimes languages - I found them all there: the composite citizenry, as if I...

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Sarah Pickering, Art & Antiquities

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Sarah Pickering is a British photographer who researches truth versus verisimilitude through the medium of photography, though never manipulating her images. This week, she presents her series about forgeries, "Art & Antiquities".
One of the Photography curators from the V&A got in...

24.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Tomio Seike
Overlook

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Tomio Seike turned 67 in 2010. His awareness of unavoidable disappearances freed his perception of simple things he would never see again, like the ocean view from his Brighton apartment. Rather than taking an inventory of the beauty of his daily surroundings, he concentrated on the postcard fr...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Rula Halawani: Testimonies

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I am not feeling well so I was sent to an Israeli hospital to see a skin doctor. While walking towards the outside clinic I was very nervous, as I did not want to be checked by an Israeli doctor. It is true that it wasn’t the first time for me to be checked by an Israeli doctor, but this pa...

09.05.2012[ read full story ]

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