THE CONFRONTATION (Israel / Palestine, 1995-2000)
For the past decade Khaled Zighari has been photographing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the West Bank of the Jordan. During his work he has been arrested and assaulted by the Israeli riot police several times, and was even once shot at close range. This fits in the pattern of deliberate attacks by journalists by the Israeli army in order to obstruct negative reporting on Israeli actions. The result is a series of grim, dark photographs about the hard reality of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank.
