In 2002, the government decided to build a wall along the 1949 armistice line between Israel and the West Bank.
On a 708 km route, about 500 km were completed almost entirely inside the West Bank. In urban areas (Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, etc.), the barrier takes the form of a concrete wall that can be up to 9 m high.
This wall, described by some as the "wall of shame", has had strong implications for the daily lives of Palestinians, both in terms...
more »In 2002, the government decided to build a wall along the 1949 armistice line between Israel and the West Bank.
On a 708 km route, about 500 km were completed almost entirely inside the West Bank. In urban areas (Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, etc.), the barrier takes the form of a concrete wall that can be up to 9 m high.
This wall, described by some as the "wall of shame", has had strong implications for the daily lives of Palestinians, both in terms of movement and access to their land.
the subject "in the shadow of the wall" aims to follow the contours of the separation wall from Tulkarem in the north to the desert areas of the southern West Bank via Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron.
Through this journey, this work would paint a portrait, twenty years after the construction of the wall, of an ever more explosive situation: the raids by the Israeli army which have claimed more than 60 lives since the beginning of the year, the new settlements which are constantly being built, the increasingly aggressive settlers, the Palestinian houses destroyed to build new colonies, the fate of the Bedouins in the south of the West Bank, the peasants deprived of their land since the construction of the wall, etc.
Through this photographic work I hope to shed light on the daily life of a Palestinian population on the verge of asphyxiation, living in the shadow of a wall that separates from Israel but encloses it and gradually nibbles its Face injustices descend into violence, others try despite everything to live a normal life, but the escalation continues and even accelerates, the risks of explosion or even a new intifada are more real than ever.
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