Fire and Stones: A State of Being

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  Emine Gozde Sevim, India

“Fire and Stones: A State of Being” is a selection of photographs from my work about the emotional traces of the on-going occupation of the Palestinian population.
Perhaps, as the oldest conflict in contemporary political consciousness, the struggle of the Palestinians is often described from a political news perspective as manifested in street confrontations between stone throwing Palestinian youth and Israeli security forces. Moving beyond this image that is engraved in our memory, as a photographer, I aim to depict a state of being that has surrendered the daily experience of Palestinians under occupation. From a mother who mourns the death of her kid to the man who confronts the security forces in the streets of Jerusalem, I believe that the damage from the occupation is also psychological and whose affects therefore are perhaps even more detrimental to the peace processes.

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