2011
Photography Project Seeks New Angles on Israel - NYTimes.com
by sbrothier
GAN HASHLOSHA NATIONAL PARK, Israel — The image is both idyllic and carefully staged: nearly a dozen foreign photographers, some of them celebrated on the international art scene, posing for a collective portrait on a sunny November morning against a startling green pool in this lush park in northern Israel.
Shooting Israel / 'Sad beauty' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
by sbrothier
Jungjin Lee's photo of Midreshet Ben-Gurion reveals her interpretation of the Land of Israel as a metaphor - as something that can be anywhere, she says.
Israeli settlement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by sbrothier
An Israeli settlement is a Jewish civilian community built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and is considered occupied territory by the international community.[1] Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank. Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and communities in the Golan Heights, areas which have been annexed by Israel, are considered settlements by the international community, which does not recognize Israel's annexations of these territories.[2] Settlements also existed in the Sinai and Gaza Strip until Israel evacuated the Sinai settlements following the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace agreement and unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
THE HUMANITARIAN IMPACT ON PALESTINIANS OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE WEST BANK
by sbrothier
This repor t examines the humanitarian
impact on Palestinians from the ongoing
construction of settlements in the West
Bank and other Israeli infrastructure,
such as the Barrier and the roads that
accompany them.
The analysis shows that almost 40% of
the West Bank is now taken up by Israeli
infrastructure. It also demonstrates how
roads linking settlements to Israel, in
conjunction with an extensive system
of checkpoints and roadblocks, have
fragmented Palestinian communities from
each other.
The deterioration of socio-economic
conditions in the West Bank has been
detailed in regular OCHA and World Bank
repor ts over the last several years. These
have underlined the fact that freedom of
movement for Palestinians is crucial to
improving humanitarian conditions and
reviving socio-economic life.
Israel's West Bank settlements: a new reality, brick by brick | World news | guardian.co.uk
by sbrothier
How Israel has expanded its presence in the West Bank since 1967
POICA-Gilo Expansion and more yet to come <br> Encouraged by weak International posture toward the Peace process
by sbrothier
Really, it was no surprise when the Israeli planning committee approved Plan 13261, Mordot Gilo at Gilo settlement southwest side of Bethlehem area. The targeted land designated for the new 1100 housing unit construction belongs to Palestinian residents from Beit Jala and was illegally annexed by Israel to the unilaterally declared Jerusalem boundary after the 1967 occupation. The approved plan 13261 comes as part of a more comprehensive construction package that includes Plan 13157 Mordot Gilo West - at Gilo settlement northwest side, which includes an additional 900 housing units and was approved earlier in July of this year. The extent of expansion designated for Gilo settlement remains ambiguous as it may involve some 1000 units more.
Mondo Exclusive: Google map of Israeli settlements from leaked database | Mondoweiss
by sbrothier
The "Spiegel settlement database" is already creating waves in Israel. Israeli NGO Yesh Din has announced they will use the database to help Palestinians sue Israel for reparations and the removal of settlements from privately owned land.
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz - Photographer
by sbrothier
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974, and immigrated to Israel in 1980. Ickowicz finished his Photography studies with honors at the Musrara School of Photography in 2000, and his Advanced Studies in Art and Photography from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 2009. His photographs have been exhibited widely in Israel and abroad, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum - Jerusalem, Haifa Museum of Art.
Ickowicz has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Gerard Levi Young Photographer's Prize from the Israel Museum (2008) and the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2010). His works center upon landscapes, human portraits and the interaction between them in the context of social and political issues.
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz is currently living and working in Tel Aviv.
Comes with the Territory - we make money not art
by sbrothier & 1 other
Another exhibition i just saw in Berlin is Comes with the Territory at Charim Ungar Contemporary (CUC). Don't run to the gallery just yet, the show closed on Saturday.
The exhibition brought together Israeli artists who explore the daily struggle to define and stretch the boundaries of the territory. Obviously, the word 'territory' in Israel comes with tense references to occupied stretches of land such as the ones in the West Bank and the Gaza strip. The term also evokes Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, check points, separation walls, disputed borders, forced evictions, etc. The artists in the exhibition, however, approach territory in a more private context. Comes with the Territory featured the works of Rotem Balva, Raafat Hattab, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Joshua Neustein, Nira Pereg and Roi Vaspi-Yanai. Subjective selection of works:
Book review: Atlas of the Conflict. Israel-Palestine - we make money not art
by sbrothier
Malkit Shoshan is an Israeli architect. She is the founder and director of the Amsterdam based architectural think tank FAST whose research explores the relations between architecture, planning, politics and activism in Israel/Palestine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and the Netherlands.
The Atlas of the conflict
by sbrothier
The Atlas of the Conflict maps the processes and mechanisms behind the shaping of Israel-Palestine over the past 100 years. Over 500 maps and diagrams provide a detailed territorial analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, explored through themes such as borders, settlements, land ownership, archaeological and cultural heritage sites, control of natural resources, landscaping, wars and treaties.
- INSTITUTE Stories
by sbrothier
Summary: ‘In This Land’ is a conceptual response to photographing Israel, borne from the challenges and frustrations of attempting to understand and reflect on a conflict that is so deeply rooted in a struggle for possession and occupation of land.
2010
Kimiko Yoshida []
“I still feel difficulty saying ‘No,’” says Yoshida during her visit in Israel. “When you want to say ‘I am cold’ in Japanese, you say ‘Cold.’ You don’t say ‘I am.’ Nor can you say ‘You.’ There is nothing personal. Even the words that describe emotions are a lot more abstract than in French, which permits me to express myself with greater precision. In France, I first learned to say ‘No,’ and then to say ‘I’ and finally to do what I wanted to do. I went to Paris to break free.”
What Really Happened In The Middle East - Terrorism Awareness Project
by ericpaul
The history of Israel
Berlinale Talent Campus day 4 & 5 « Elzemieke de Tiege
by srcmax (via)
Every day, two new videos report on the daily life of people living in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel): gaza-sderot.arte.tv
Prison Valley is a webdocumentary by David Dufresne and Philippe Brault on the prisonindustry in the crisis-striken United States: prisonvalley.arte.tv
2009
Timeline - Israel, the Gaza Strip and Hamas - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
by sbrothier
Major events in the longstanding conflict over control of the Gaza Strip and the creation of Hamas.
Nicolai Howalt
by sbrothier
Nicolai Howalt (b. 1970) is a photobased artist. Born and based in Denmark.
Nicolai Howalts photographic works carry references to the tradition of documentarism. His work is typically based in specific environments. Boxer (2003) was a photographic portrait project about young boys shot before and after a match. In 2001 Howalt presented the series 3X1 about a family living in a surburban counsil flat. He recieved Niels Wessel Bagge's Art Prize 2008 and the ParisPhoto BMV Special Jury Award 2006. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including Museo de Arte Contemoraneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain. Museum of Fine Art Houston, USA and The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel og Maison Européenne de Photographie, Paris.
Jolicloud - Blog
by srcmax
Gaza Sderot
A documentary project reporting on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza in Palestine, and Sderot in Israel: Users have a non-linear access to short chronicles that follow the day-to-day lives and survival of six characters in Gaza and six in Sderot.
The journey of mine: Gaza-Sderot (the tales of two cities)
by srcmax (via)
The website of the videos.....
the feelings and the lives of the people living in Israel....and Palestine
Gaza-Sderot Life in Spite Everything | No Camels
by srcmax (via)
The article is about a project which reports on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel) through stories which are being aired on the Internet. Arik Bernstein the Co- Producer of the project tells us about the idea behind this project and its feedback around the world. Recently Gaza-Sderot was nominated for an International Digital Emmy Award in the non-fiction category.
