US AGAINST THEM: THREE POINTS OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICT (Northern Ireland / Iraq / Israel, 1989-2003)
In his quarter century as a freelance photographer, Ed Kashi has had just about every religion in front of his lens. It always struck him how faith was used to reinforce the believers’ own identity. Us Against Them shows three examples. Jewish colonists hold fast to their Biblical claim to the West Bank irrespective of the many rational arguments against it. Protestants in Northern Ireland nourish their hatred of Catholicism, which has existed since the days of William of Orange. And the Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq are once again in conflict about issues that are rooted in centuries-old religious arguments. In the lust for power and one’s own identity religion more often than not is used to divide people, Ed Kashi concludes.
