Rich Wiles and Lajee Center are very pleased to announce the 2007-08 Palestine Photography Tour. This is part of our joint work leading up to Nakba 60. Scheduled dates are listed below, we are still open and available for more possible dates throughout 2008 (please contact for more details).

 

16 Nov – 16 Dec 07	Portraits of ‘Palestine’	The Gallery, Kingswood College of Arts, Hull, UK.
8 Dec – 31 Jan 08	Our Dreams and Nightmares’	De Levante Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan – Mar 08	Portraits of ‘Palestine’	Dean Clough Galleries, Dean Clough, West Yorkshire, UK.
March 08	‘Dreams of Home’	Edinburgh, Scotland,UK.
April 08	‘Portraits of Palestine’	Resistance Bookstore         Gallery, Paris, France.
May 08	Portraits of Palestine’. & ‘Dreams of Home’ & ‘Our Dreams and Nightmares’	Melbourne, Australia
May 08	Portraits of Palestine’. & ‘Dreams of Home’ & ‘Our Dreams and Nightmares’	Sydney, Australia.
May 08	Portraits of Palestine’. & ‘Dreams of Home’ & ‘Our Dreams and Nightmares’	Adelaide, Australia
June 08	Dreams of Home’	UK dates (hopefully with  artists from Lajee Center present)

 ‘Portraits of Palestine’:- My personal long-term project in Palestine.

Images from 2003-07. A personal and intimate collection of environmental portraits of Palestinians attempting to live their lives in the Occupied West Bank.

 

‘Our Dreams and Nightmares’:-    Exhibition produced by the New Generation

                                                           of Lajee Center, Aida Refugee Camp, in  

2007. Black and white images illustrating the dreams and nightmares, hopes and fears, of young people growing up in exile and under Occupation. (Artists aged 15-20).

 

‘Dreams of Home’:-   Exhibition produced by children from Lajee Center, Aida Refugee Camp, in 2007. A colour             project looking for connections between the memories and history of survivors of Al Nakba, and the contemporary realities in the depopulated villages today. Images taken by children during trips back ‘home’ to their villages which their grandparents were forced from during Al Nakba, providing a historical context and a contemporary reality on issues relating to Right of Return and Al Nakba through the eyes of children. (Artists aged 11-15)