Positif
"Waiting"
Photographe
Description
Chatila (Palestinian) refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon, 2022. (As in, waiting for Palestinian statehood and a return to their homeland. This image was made in Beirut's densely-populated Chatila refugee camp. Lebanese rightists had perpetuated a large-scale massacre there of Palestinian civilians in conjunction with the Israeli military during Israel's 1982 war against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Depicted in the poster, right, is PLO leader and head of the Palestinian Authorithy (PA) in the west Bank, Mahmoud Abbas. On the upper left (over the "X" banner) is the banner of Hamas, rival to Abbas' PA. I'd been discouraged from going into the Sabra-Chatila complex unescorted because it was considered dangerous; the camps were outside the jurisdiction of Lebanese security authorities. I arranged for a camp official to have someone guide me, but when I got there, I didn't manage to hook up with him, so I roamed the camps on my own. I'm glad I did it. I didn't feel in any danger, and I was free to engage people in conversation. I find that going solo is usually worth the effort/risk;portrait en pied et de profil d'un homme assis sur une chaise de jardin en plastique dans une rue du camp de réfugiés de Chatila, regardant son téléphone, avec une affiche, à droite, montrant , Mahmoud Abbas, chef de l'OLP et chef de l'Autorité palestinienne (AP) en Cisjordanie. En haut à gauche (au-dessus de la bannière « X ») se trouve la bannière du Hamas, rival de l'AP d'Abbas.