A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera. —Dorothea Lange My photographic life began when I was 7 years old on the Southside of Chicago, 1946, just one year after World War Two ended and the US unleashed the first use of nuclear weapons, a period I do not recall but […]
Read More My photographic lifeThe city as a living entity with it being an environment for—and in turn, an environment being created by—the people who give it heart and pulse. I will observe, with intimate photographic scrutiny, these individuals as I encounter them during participation in the daily life of the city. (Yet, I will respect their ethical right […]
Read More Folding Bike Photography in Detroit-part 2: Faith & DisappointmentWe can do it, you know. We can get there. We can have it all. The Third Millennium AD can be the green millennium, the time in which we learn to live as responsible human beings at last. There is no law, natural or divine, which demands that the world we live in become poorer, […]
Read More Photographing an action at the West Roxbury Lateral PipelineGaza, mortar fired by Israeli army into a farming area, 2009 In a Gaza hospital recovering from an Israeli sniper attack, 2004 Boston Marathon bomb explodes, April 2013 (Courtesy Boston.com) Boston Marathon bombing, April 2013 (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo) Excerpts from my journal and letters as I explore the situation in Palestine […]
Read More In the Light, Palestine-Israel: Responses from a few Gazans to the Boston bombingHear the prayer of our soul. There speaks our truth and faith: To fulfill our task on earth we need Powers great from lands where spirits dwell, Strength that comes from friends who have died. —The House of Peace Excerpts from my journal as I explore the situation in Palestine and Israel PHOTOS March 25, […]
Read More In the Light, Palestine-Israel: I enter GazaSEEKING VENUES, CALIFORNIA TO ALASKA Photographs by Skip Schiel from Palestine & Israel Skip Schiel has been documenting the Palestinian and Israeli reality through photographs and journal postings since 2003—work with a better feel for the detailed texture of life in Gaza and the West Bank than any appearing in US media. Schiel spends time where […]
Read More WEST COAST PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESENTATION TOUR (FALL 2012)…There are ten measures of hypocrisy in the world—nine in Jerusalem and one in the rest of the world… —Avot D’Rabbi Natan Popular Achievement training session at Birzeit University, a program of the American Friends Service committee in the West Bank and Gaza Landfill in the Jordan Valley, nominally Palestinian Territory in the West Bank, […]
Read More With an Open Heart: Eyewitness to the Levant: Report of the Spring 2012 JourneyYoga in front of the Federal Reserve Bank, Dewey Square, Boston A UN observer inspecting an unexploded cluster bomb-laden rocket in southern Lebanon. (AP) Photo courtesy of The Independent 2011 Pages from my journal about the Occupy Movement Occupy Boston International Day of Solidarity with the Occupied Movement & a march to end US wars […]
Read More Occupy! Precedents & ManifestationsEin Samiya, Occupied Territories of Palestine, aka, West Bank, (click for enlargement) Well and pump house in Ein Samiya. From an aquifer in Ein Samiya 20 km northeast of Ramallah Occupied Territories of Palestine, paid for largely by Jordan in 1963, replacing an earlier system relying on cisterns and a few local springs for drinking […]
Read More Detroit-part 6 (on the road in Traverse City, Michigan)Excerpts from my journal while touring the southern United States with new photographs and stories. The main shows are Gaza Steadfast, Bethlehem the Holy, The Hydropolitics of Palestine/Israel, and Quakers in Palestine/Israel. (I’ve completed the tour and I’m now happily at home in Cambridge Massachusetts for the foreseeable future.) PHOTOS November 12, 2009, Thursday, Baton […]
Read More On the road: a photo tour in the USA south about Palestine/Israel, fall 2009—part 8 (Baton Rouge & New Orleans)
Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography 