Inspired by traditional end-of-year letters from others, never having written one myself, I’m motivated to try now. Yes, a little late. But with a twist: save for last (if ever) what tends to come first in most letters—family and travels, possibly health but usually not—and begin with what’s for me juiciest. My letter will be […]
Read More Slices of 2022-ConclusionFrom my journal and letters, my dispatches from the field while I continue my photographic project about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. Here in Palestine-Israel thru July 10, 2019. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the one […]
Read More Palestinian Refugees & their Ancestral Homes-second phase-ArrivalFrom my journal, my dispatches from the field, as I photograph internally displaced refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, plus their ancestral lands. (and as I photograph the Alternatives to Violence (AVP) trainings at least in Bethlehem, Hebron, and Ramallah, Gaza as well if I get my permit from Israel) PHOTOS (Flight) September 3, […]
Read More Palestinian Refugees & their Ancestral Lands (or On Our Way Home)—part 1—Departure and flightAccounts from my journal, written while I photographed Detroit for three weeks during the end of summer 2016. PHOTOS September 10, 2016, Saturday, Detroit Biking in to Dearborn yesterday [September 9, 2016] I stopped at the bicycle shop on Schaefer that I’ve frequented earlier, to pump air in my tires. A voluble employee (at first, […]
Read More Folding Bike Photography in Detroit-part 4: Eddie’s Bike ShopLive, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. ― Jack Kerouac Inspired by a photo exhibition I recently viewed called The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip at the Detroit Institute of Arts (based on a book by Aperture with a fuller array of photos on the same theme) I will now sketch my Open […]
Read More The Open RoadA special interlude as I examine and portray the troubles in the Levant With heart-felt thanks to ifixit and J at the office, a true wizard. There is a saying in Tibetan, “Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.” No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our […]
Read More The saga of my broken laptop—and how I managed while on the roadLeaving Boston Massachusetts George Amer, baker and painter, with his painting, Jerusalem Excerpts from my journal as I examine and portray the troubles in the Levant March 23, 2012, Friday, Bethlehem Over Newark New Jersey I sit in my kitchen, in my apartment, in my home, morning sun streaming in, writing. One large space punctuated […]
Read More With an Open Heart: photos & stories from Palestine & Israel: A providential conversationGaza, 2010 I have followed Skip’s activities through his email newsletter which has kept me up to date through the personal contacts he has made with peacemakers. From living [myself] in a situation of violence and change in South Africa I know how valuable it is to have the kind of support he is offering […]
Read More With an Open Heart: Eyewitness to the Levant—Skip Schiel’s next journey to Palestine/IsraelInside this new love, die. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side. Become the sky Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color, Do it now. You’re covered with thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the […]
Read More Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—12Voluptuousness Tender lovers, bravely face your suffering. The god who gives you these bonds, Must come to your aid in the end; The least favor That love provides Is able to atone for the troubles that he makes us suffer. Far from this place, sad wisdom, Should one forbid youth Forming these delightful bonds? What […]
Read More Spreading images of Palestine & Israel to the West Coast of the United States—A Travel Journal—11
Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography 