Curator Selection / 2024 / /

• Photographer
  Andrew Raymond, United Kingdom
• Category
  Asia
• Instagram
  @peepshow.co

The kids who call Palestine's Aida Refugee Camp "home", exist within an open-air prison. Playgrounds are surrounded by barbed wire, claw machines that should be filled with toys are mainly filled with cash and cigarettes, and colourful murals painted by children depict men with guns.

Whilst their lives are unimaginably different to the free children of the world, they still play, they still act out like kids do, and (remarkably) they still laugh.

These images were taken in July 2023, just one week after a young boy was shot and killed in the camp's streets by Israeli soldiers.