![]() ‘Instead of reproducing the representations of occupied Palestine that are so ubiquitous and so obvious, I was able to capture the quieter moments and try to work to create new representations of Palestine’ – Adam Rouhana Many great minds have fudged their words in an effort to articulate what is happening in Palestine, but you see and feel it here in Rouhana’s images. Here there is joy, frustration, resistance and grief but it sits alongside hope and joy. The dissonance between the inevitable continuum and inherent beauty of everyday life existing under oppression is inescapable, as is the affection for the land and its people that radiates from these images. In the images of the people and places he encounters on walks, there will often be a soldier, a policeman, a fence, a wall or an observation tower adjunct, as they exist, to school, houses and football pitches. ![]() Much of his work focuses on the periods he spends in Palestine, which is something he says has evolved organically over time. Photography is not really a practice, it’s just part of who I am.” I was able to go up to pretty much anybody and just approach folks and get to know them point-blank, without any background. “So, I sort of relied on it and I don’t know if it was as much talent for photography as much as it was a different relationship with people that kind of kept me doing photography. “Photography became a way for me to interact with the world and with people, and it became a default,” he tells Dazed.
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