Description
Between 2003 and 2006, I documented settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The photographs focus on the architecture of the settlements, portraits of settlers, walls, and roadblocks, and examine their relationship to the landscape.
The settlement images present a romantic and pristine landscape, within which elements of domination, settlement, and land appropriation are embedded: a caravan, houses with red-tiled roofs, a playground, a road, and vegetation. These everyday elements, which depict a pastoral and normal settlement, are laden with complex meaning due to their geographic location within a conflict zone.
The body of work conveys a sense of a deceptive reality, expressed in the tension between the beautiful landscape and the caravan, the wall, the makeshift separation fences, and the people inhabiting these places—between the normal and the abnormal.
