The subway tunnels are havens for restive artists and designers. The West Bank wall separating Palestinian territory from Israel, like the Berlin Wall before it, has become a public canvas on which frustrated people express pain and longing through word and image. In LOVE WINS: Palestinian Perseverance Behind Walls (Olive Branch Press, paper, $22), this work is brought into focus through the images of Afzal Huda, a Canadian photographer and filmmaker, who spent three weeks during the summer of 2011 shooting pictures along the wall and interviewing those who live in its shadow. The title is taken from a slogan carefully painted on one piece of the imposing concrete. Over half of the book consists of photos of Palestinians and a few Israeli soldiers going about their daily routines; the rest show dozens of loosely scrawled and ambitiously painted messages that zero in on the theme of hope.
via Art and Outrage – Slide Show – NYTimes.com.
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