Confronting Views - Dinu Mendrea
In this photo essay, created during the last two years, my purpose was NOT to follow the extreme, violent events that make the BIG news, but to create a "psychography", a portrait of those (young) Jerusalemites who live in the dark shadow of the conflict.
It is not about the blood of the victims – its visual representations in my view only feeding, intensifying and perpetuating this crazy war – but about the state of mind of those who are still alive.
I have tried to capture the players of this hyper-polarized city in their pause, in their moments of doubt, meditation, contemplation, fatigue, rest, fear, hope, understanding, grace, consolation and escape. It might not be the “accurate portrait of the young average Jerusalemite”, but it is the representation of my big hope that those leaving the main stream and looking at it from the side will make the change.
