P H O T O G R A P H E R

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1 P H O T O G R A P H E R My work as a photographer and as a legal researcher has always been closely intertwined. I always put the persons at the center of my pictures, trying to catch some moments of their daily life and reveal the context and the situation surrounding them. Above all, i want to talk about their humanity. Since 2003; I have been building an extensive collection of images on Palestine based on a long-term perspective. I try to explore life under military occupation and what are the consequences of the conflict on people and on landscape. I focus my work on Palestinian children, the Wall and its impact on Palestinians, refugees and displaced persons as well as non-violent resistance to occupation. More recently I have also developed an interest for Bedouin communities on both sides of the Wall. I have also taught groups of children the art of photography and curated their photo exhibitions. I have developped a programme called Images for Life in Aida refugee camp where the goal is to empower Palestinians, especially refugees, through media. Since 2006, I have been a member of Activestills, a group of photographers who believe in photography as a tool for social change and regularly organises street photo exhibitions in Israel and elsewhere First Photo Prize of international competition «Expressions of Nakba» SPECIALITIES Documentary photography, photo stories, awareness campaigns. Cards and posters design for campaigns. Portraits combined with interviews. Specialist in human rights and international humanitarian law. Palestine photography: daily life, portraits, the Wall, refugees and displaced persons, nonviolent resistance, cultural and social life, political events. EDUCATION LLM in International Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Irish Centre of Human Rights, Galway, Ireland Diplôme de l Institut d Etudes Politiques de Lyon, major: Politics and Communication

2 PHOTO EXHIBITIONS 2008 "Hebron: The First 40 Years", photo group exhibition held at the Minshar School for Art gallery, organised by Activestills and Breaking the Silence. Curator: Miki Kratsman. The exhibition brought together photographs of Palestinian, Israeli and international photographers covering the last 40 years of Hebron. What You Think You See, a photo exhibition organized by Activestills, curator: Gilad Baram, Tacheless; Berlin The exhibition s aimed to draw attention to the increasingly prominent Activist Photography movement in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The photographers contributing to this exhibition came from diverse places, with background experience conflict zones, having the same goal of making the public more aware of a reality they believe is fundamentally and socially unjust. Emmurés (mais) vivants, Festival transmediterranée, Palais des Congrès, Grasse; November. Exhibition of approximately 40 black and white pictures presented as part of a local festival. Jerusalem Dispossessed, a photo exhibition organized and presented by Activestills, in collaboration with ICADH, presented in Washington DC; London and Jerusalem. 40 to 67, a photo exhibition organized and presented by Activestills. The exhibition was designed to mark the 40 years of occupation. It concentrated on four of the larger cities occupied by Israel: Hebron, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Gaza City and intended to show the reality of 40 years of occupation. The exhibition was displayed in and around the streets of Jerusalem; Tel Aviv and Haifa. It was also displayed in different cities around the world Let s Call It Routine, Collective exhibition, by Michar School; Tel Aviv, April Pictures, sustained by text illustrating the daily life of Palestinian people under occupation. No(rmal) Childhood in Palestine?, international exhibition. Independent project set up with a Canadian legal researcher The exhibiton aimed at showing daily life of Palestinian children and proved how the military occupation affects their development and basic rights. - Content: 45 pictures in black and white and 25 colour pictures (30x40) ; 3 giant formats ( 2m x 1.50) ; thematic posters, case studies and references to relevant international law provisions. - International Tour: Netherlands ( Utrecht, The Hague, Institute of Social Studies, together with conference); France ( Lyon, during Children s Rights Week, together with conference and at the Institut d Etudes Politiques de Lyon, during the festival of the Arab World, with conference; Thiers, together with conferences at schools and a conference organised by Amnesty International, Clermont-Ferrand with a conference at the law school; Strasbourg, Stimultania, during the Strasbourg-Méditerranée festival; Switzerland (Geneva, World Church Council, during the international symposium of Defence for Children International Rights based approach to international cooperation: a child rights perspective ); Luxembourg (Centre Culturel de l Abbaye de Neumunster, with the conference What sort of future for the Israeli and Palestinian Youth? ); Germany (Berlin, exhibition held during the Symposium: "Konflikttransformation in Palästina und Israel: Beiträge des Zivilen Friedensdienstes" Fachsymposium, February 2005); Canada (Montréal, and Quebec coupled with conferences at local universities and schools. -Total number of visitors: over 10,000 visitors.

3 2005 Other photo exhibitions on Palestine. Bethlehem: series of 20 pictures on Palestinian children and their rights, international conference Children Behind Bars organised by Defence for Children International; Intercontinental Hotel, June Paris, Center of Secours Catholique, series of around 40 pictures on Palestinian children, 28 November- 2 December Photo exhibition on Gabon, Blaise-Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand, April black and white and colour pictures during a cultural week on Gabon Sealing Their Fate: The Wall's Implications On Palestinian Life, collective exhibition:, London, School of Oriental and African Studies January Collective Exhibition of international and Palestinian artists on the impact of the building of the Wall on education in Palestine. Organized by SOAS Palestine Society, Friends of Birzeit University Personal Contribution: 10 pictures (30x40) and three giant formats (2m by 1m50). Collective Punishment Harms Everybody, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine. -Exhibition developed for the Al-Haq's international campaign «Stop Collective Punishment». -Exhibition organised around 5 themes: Obstacles to freedom of movement; destruction de maisons; house demolitions; mass arrests; the Wall. See -Content: 40 black and white pictures (30x40); case studies; references to international law. -Exhibition tour in Palestine and France and also presented at the Forum Social in Porto Allegre, Brazil. -Activities: School visits; awareness on international law; petitions «Le Gabon, Une Expérience Humanitaire, Exhibiton hall of Thiers, France. Exhibition following a field mission to Gabon. -Content: more than 100 black and white and colour pictures (30x40) displayed originally on paintings, video space. -More than 500 visitors, visits in schools. 90 pictures sold. ASSIGNMENTS months 2 weeks months Gathering of photographs of holy places for the group Christians of Orient for a photo book to be published in Project coordinator for Images for Life programme, AlRowwad Center, Aida refugee camp; Bethlehem. Organisation of an 8-months long photo and video training project followed by production of a photo exhibition and cards. Main photo trainer. Photographer on the film-shooting of the short fiction Checkpoint, produced by the French organization Cinema Public. Documentation of video workshops directed by French Director Pascale Diez in Nablus. Organisation of a workshop on photography with Palestinian children in Aida refugee camp. Conception and organisation of a photo exhibition with the children s pictures. Creation of a series of 8 photographic cards. Various assignments for the Palestinian NGO BADIL. Gathering of photographs on refugees and reports. Photographer for the photo agency BauBau. Coverage of the situation in the West

4 Bank and Israel Photographer for the international convention of Defence for Children International, World Church Council, Geneva, Switzerland Photographer of the Al-Haq's international campaign Stop Collective Punishment. Concept and organization of international exhibition. Design of 4 postcards. 3 pictures for the posters Photographer for the humanitarian project PNSG in Gabon, selection of pictures for the website and photo exhibition. PUBLICATIONS Front covers: - Ground to a Halt- Denial of Palestinians Freedom of Movement in the West Bank, B TSELEM Report, August. - Jerusalem Dispossessed Exhibition Booklet; Active Stills/ICAHD, October edited by Angela Godfrey-Goldstein. - Mitsad Sheni, Alternative Information Center, n 19-20,. - DVD Un Mur à Jerusalem, documentary produced by the Secours Catholique, ; - DVD cover Checkpoint, a short fiction produced by the French association Cinema public; - Badil s calendar. - Book cover of The Palestine Question in International Law; British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Badil s Survey of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons,. - Badil s 2006 Report Displaced by the Wall, Forced displacement as a Result of the West Bank Wall and associated Regime; September French Magazine Altermondes, n 7, September Magazine Jaridat Alfonoon, April Al-Majdal Magazines: Issue n 32 (Winter 2006-); Number (Summer-Fall 2006); Winter Book Chants de la Mer Morte, Andrée Dahan, Laval, Québec : Éditions Trois, Surviving the Present, Facing the Future, the 2005 Annual report of Defence for Children International, Palestine Section, Review Palestine News, Imprisoning the Palestinians Spring 2005, London. Posters and other campaigns materials - 1 picture in brochure for MSc International Conflict and Co-operation, University of Stirling, pictures in 2005 Badil s Calendar ; - Picture on poster for invitation for the conference : World Speakers- Islam and Disrupted Childhood, Institute for Social studies and Winternachten, the Hague, Netherlands, 2005; - Picture used for poster for the day of solidarity with Palestine; 5000 copies published by the Plate-Forme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine, 2005; - Picture chosen by the Plate-Forme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine for their 2004 Stop the Wall Campaign: poster, stickers and brochures published at copies ; - 3 Pictures used by Al-Haq for their posters of their international campaign against collective punishment ; and four pictures used for virtual activist postcards (see: - Selection of pictures on Jerusalem for the CD-Rom Jerusalem, A Confiscated Capital, distributed by la Plate-Forme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine. Publications in reviews, newspapers, magazines, films and books - Jahalin Bedouin Refugees - Nowhere Left to Go, October edited by Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, ICAHD. - Pictures included in documentary Holy Land: Common Ground, by Ed Gaffney and Alicia Dwyer,. - -Badil s Survey of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons,. - The Progressive, pictures on the demonstration in Tel aviv for the 4O years of occupation, p. 14, August.

5 - Picture illustrating the article Palestine, le rap temoin les Inrockuptibles, n 594, April. - 4 pictures in the book «Rencontres et visages d ailleurs- Volontaires à travers le Monde», Délégation Catholique de Coopération,. - Regular pictures and articles in AlMajdal magazine, Badil organisation. - Photo-Reportage: New terminals, new imposed borders?, Al-Majdal, Winter 2006, pp Pictures also published in pages 4; 8; 11 and Picture illustrating the 2006 Palestinian elections in Palestine News, Spring 2006, p.5. - Article Children in focus, with pictures in Palestine News, Winter 2005, p Annual Review of FIDH : FIDH- Bilan , 3 Pictures published. - Articles and pictures published in French newspaper Semeur Hebdo, France, WEB SITES Personal Websites: Personal website presenting various photographic works and photo exhibitions. Chroniques of Palestine- Personal blog mixing texts and pictures. Websites displaying pictures: Website of independent collective of documentary photographers acting for social change, convinced in the power of photography as a vehicle of change through awareness