“Homeland Lost” Special Edition Print – In support of MAP, Medical Aid for Palestinians

Description

From 2003 to 2005 Alan Gignoux travelled to Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel documenting Palestinian refugees and the houses and villages that were their homes before they were forced into exile in 1948.

The resulting body of work includes portraits of Palestinian refugees of all ages shown alone or with other family members and often holding up keys to lost homes, Mandate identity cards, photographs of loved ones from whom they have been separated, and photo albums from the years before the Nakba. One elderly woman wears her wedding dress, which she had carried with her into exile in Lebanon. 

These images are paired with photographs of the sitters’ former homes and villages in what is today Israel.

The portraits and landscapes were exhibited across the Middle East and Europe under the title Homeland Lost between 2006 and 2011.  The exhibition’s presentation of Palestinian refugees alongside their former homes was a powerful reminder of the pain and suffering caused by dispersal, exile, and statelessness as well as of the origins of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. 

Since Gignoux made this body of work twenty years ago, another generation of Palestinian children has been born and grown to adulthood in refugee camps across the region.  Where will they and their children be twenty years from now?

Open edition available as a pair 10 x 10 inches each printed on fine art quality Canson Arches 88 paper.

Proceeds from the sale of this print will go to MAP, Medical Aid for Palestinians.