face to face
Portrait photography came along with the invention of the camera, a cheaper, more accessible and very popular method than portrait painting.
Eventually, technical developments led to the production of photo booths, automatic machines guaranteeing availability at any time in a public space.
art students at Al Aqsa University, Gaza
These machines allow the person being photographed a maximum of autonomy within the machine’s cabin possibilities. After a couple of minutes photographs slip through the slot, still damp, yet an expeditious result – a frozen moment, a quick memory, or a long-term proof of identity – if used for a passport or any other identity card.
art students at Al Aqsa University, Gaza
These photographic portraits illustrating persons placed against a white background are clearly structured in a formal array. The fixed arrangement in two rows insinuates a reciprocal regard, trying to find the other person behind a closed face, behind a headscarf.
art students at Al Aqsa University, Gaza
Even for the observer of this scene, men and women do not show themselves. Reminiscent of wanted people on posters displayed in public buildings, these portraits of art students at Al Aqsa University in Gaza nevertheless do not reveal their personality.
art students at Al Aqsa University, Gaza
photography by Fawzy Emrany, Gaza 2007
text by Rayelle Niemann, 2008
OTHER PROJECTS ON CITYSHARING
→ Arab Army
→ Family Photo Album
[ Border Farm Project ]
[ body in context I ]
[ body in context II ]
[ Citizen ]
[ Clothing Theory: Heinrich Lüber and Architecture ]
[ Family Photo Album ]
• face to face •
[ Gefunden — Found ]
[ Giving young Kosovo Albanians a face ]
[ IM PARK_I Lie to History … ]
[ Journey of a Yellow Man ]
[ Letters To Fritz and Paul ]
[ Neo_Celebration ]
[ Pain is Inevitable ]
[ Permanent Breakfast ]
[ Stammer - A Lecture in Theory ]
[ Treibsand ]
[ T’adaad i-sseneen—Counting Years ]
FEATURED THEME ON CITY SHARING
by ASUNCION MOLINOS GORDO
-
This project is an instrument for common critical analysis to help understand the reasons behind Egyptians’ diminishing …
by INAS HALABI
-
The project Letters to Fritz and Paul focuses on the expeditions of the Swiss cousins, lovers and scientists, Fritz and …
by SARAH BURGER
-
The planned modern city of Brasilia attracted me since a long time. Her defined shape, location and function proceded he …
by ADRIEN GUILLET
-
Youri Telliug talks with the artist Adrien Guillet about his project Citracit
Youri Telliug - What is Citracit …
by NIGIST GOYTOM
-
In 2013 more than 45 million people have been forced to leave their homes. This amounts to the biggest number of refugees …
by SULAFA HIJAZI
-
The on going debate on Arab identity and its (cultural) representation is strongly shaped by Edward Saidʼs formative …
by ASUNCION MOLINOS GORDO
-
WAM is a site-specific work that uses the historical trope of the cabinet of curiosities to explore the introduction of …
MORE CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE FOLLOWING
