This project focuses on a small community of people living in the Old City of Hebron
narrated as it relates to the heavy political situation and the tragic evolving events.
Al Khalil, as it is known in Arabic, is a city in the West Bank where Palestinians and
Jewish settlers live together in unusual close proximity. Here the conflict made its way
into the small trifle of everyday life.
Waves of violence are coming and going during the year but the tension never eases. The
heavy militarization paralyzed commercial life and turned part of the city center into a
ghost town. Residents navigate through a maze of checkpoints that are often targets of
attacks and demonstrations, and endure tensions between the most extreme factions from
both sides.
Lorenzo Tugnoli (b. 1979, Italy) is a photographer based in Beirut.
His work has been published by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Wired, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Der Spiegel, LFI - Leica Fotografie International.
He is a regular contributor of the The Washington Post.
In 2014 he published The Little Book of Kabul, a book project that depicts a portraif of Kabul through the daily life of a number of artists who live in the city, in collaboration with writer Francesca Recchia.
