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We finished our evening today shopping for local handicrafts at a store near the separation wall in Bethlehem.
This is the Palestinian side of the wall. As you can see it is covered with graffiti. Many of the messages on the wall are pro-Palestine, anti-war, or about the heartbreak of separation from loved ones. Unfortunately, there are also some hateful, messages written as well.
The Israeli side has no graffiti on it. Anything painted on it, is painted over soon after.
The posters you see here were writen by local women affected by the separation wall. The poster here reads as follows:
" WALL MUSEUM
This is a series of posters with true stories written by Palestinian women. The stories of suffering and oppression as well as 'sumud' (steadfastness or resilience), inner strength and cultural identity are here to bring out the truth of Palestinian life, which this wall tries to hide and kill.
This project is made possible through sponsoring of individual posters.
You too can help expand this 'museum' by sponsporing a poster. For more information please contact the nearby Sumud Story House
info@aeicentre.org
-02-2746595"
LOCATION:
Separation Wall, Bethlehem, Palestine
DATE TAKEN:
November 29th, 2017
Then God said, "Let there be a horizon in the middle of the water in order to separate the water." So God made the horizon and separated the water above and below the horizon. And so it was. — Genesis Chapter 1, Verses 6-7
I've long been fascinated with the creation stories of various religions. In the Genesis account one of the things I find most interesting is that it describes a process of "creation by separation" — it's not about making something by putting things together but by pulling things apart. Not everything in the Genesis creation story is made this way but it is a theme that carries through to the creation of woman and the eventual separation from the Garden of Eden.
The whole of the Old Testament deals frequently with issues of separation and post-separation. That's all the more interesting I think as the stories in the Old Testament are happening at a time when human populations (and the required size for population centers) were increasing to the point that different groups (tribes) were finding it increasingly difficult to remain separate (i.e., to keep from running into each other and from competing for the same resources).
This is a layering of two photographs both taken April 18th, 2007.
I took my opportunity to shoot the beautiful Haw River in foggy conditions. I loved the separation between foreground and background.
While they recognize that smokers need to be separated fom those who like to breathe, they clearly do not recognize that smoke doesn't read the signs.
At the site of violent clashes between left-wing extremists, foreign nationals, Arabs and right-wing activists from the 'Im Tirtzu' orginization together with the Border Police at the site of the separation fence near the checkpoint on the 446 highway by the village of Na'alin (Yehuda Boltshauser)
An invisible barrier, thicker than any glass, stronger than any wall.
I'm fascinated by how it turned out. Looks like the character is putting his/her hand on a 'window'. Loneliness? Emo? hehe.
It's just shadow on an orange coloured wall.
My friend Jaime got a bit excited on the dance floor and through her arm right out of her shoulder. Pretty cool eh? I wanna party with that chick!
Apartment blocks became a worldwide phenomenon in the 1960's as city planners cast off design based on human scale and began construction on a future of managed density. Filled with optimism about a new society that would live in collective units, the designers swept away old learning about organic urban growth in order to bring the traffic pattern of human lives under strict control.
In “Units of Separation”, my project is an exploration of the way people maintain their individuality while being part of a collective and how units of space meant to foster communal harmony can actually threaten our sense of community. While a resident may come to know their immediate neighbor, it is possible they may never meet the person living directly above them.
In this collection of images, I explored blocks of flats in different countries and photographed them from different vantage points. I am fascinated by how the notion of communities in high-rise apartment complexes changes in different parts of the world. In some countries it is a sign of luxury, in others they are equated to a slum.
© Magda Biernat