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The rising of the light: This is Not Disney Land

Posted in Love, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
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June 27, 2009, Saturday, Al Rowwad, Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem
A remarkable set of dreams about ME: I saw her from a distance, she was as usual lovely and irresistible, but this time she sat next to a young [...]

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The rising of the light: Beautiful Resistance in the Aida refugee camp of Bethlehem, Occupied Territories, Palestine

Posted in Light, Love, Palestine & Israel, Photography, Photography workshops, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Apartheid Wall

AbdelFattah Abu-Srour, director of the Center and the theater
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
June 26, 2009, Friday, Al Rowwad, Aida refuge camp, Bethlehem:
Writing from the Al Rowwad Cultural and Theater Center, not with my usual ease and fluency because of the unfamiliar [...]

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The rising of the light: Morning to Night: “Happy Land”—Israel & Palestine

Posted in Light, Love, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
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June 21, 2009, Sunday, Ramallah Friends School apartment—summer solstice:
Yes, how could I ignore this: summer solstice, the first time I can recall celebrating it out of country. How to celebrate here? An extra cup of coffee? Stroke my magic [...]

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The rising of the light: Home & into the streets

Posted in Light, Love, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
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June 20, 2009, Saturday, Ramallah Friends School flat:
Dreaming last night about a set of babies that I was somehow responsible for. Wrestling with one of them she fell over me and banged her mouth, knocking out a front tooth. [...]

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The rising of the light: Water & “War”

Posted in Light, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
June 19, 2009, Friday, Ramallah Friends School apartment:
An introduction to dreaming in Palestine: nothing specific to the region last night that I could detect. Running barefoot with others over sand, flying rapidly. Crossing a bridge. A young woman, maybe [...]

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The rising of the light: Entering Israel & Palestine

Posted in Light, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Sunrise over France
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
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June 17, 2009, Wednesday, Orly airport, Paris France:
In the Orly airport near Paris, waiting for the 2nd and last leg of this journey, about to land in Tel Aviv and worry my way thru the expected questions [...]

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Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: A Continuing Journey to the Levant, summer 2009

Posted in Light, Love, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

By addressing the issues of water inequity, resource management, and waste, Skip Schiel is…creating a body of work that has both immediate and future relevance far beyond the Middle East.
—Sara Burke, co-editor, Peacework magazine

I plan to return to Palestine/Israel in the summer of 2009 for another 3-month residency. As on my previous 4 journeys [...]

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