Means of Giving Voice to What Words Can No Longer Convey

......We are living through history.

As artists, we have to make images for the world to show that we have feelings. We have ideas. We have kids. We exist.

Ragha Zaiton, artist living in Nablus, West Bank

.....It was a futile attempt to filter or stop the massacres and deaths. I can only stop them metaphorically.

Taysir Batniji, artist from Gaza living in Paris

......During this war, I made art almost every day. It's been my way of resistance.....

Wafa Hourani, artist based in Ramallah

“Taking photographs during the war is not merely an act of witnessing. It’s an attempt to hold onto what is vanishing before our eyes, where life, loss and memory intersect in ways that cannot be separated. It has become an act of existence itself, a continuous search for traces of life and human persistence. These photographs were born in moments where the boundary between survival and expression become extremely thin, and where the camera becomes my only means of giving voice to what words can no longer convey.”

Moayed Abu Ammouna, photographer living in Gaza

......After more and more journalists were killed in Gaza, the journalist became like the main character of the war. It was no longer just a war and a genocide against the Palestinian people. It was also a war about the narrative.

Abed Shalabi, sculptor born in Iksal in northern Israel, now lives in Richmond, Va

.......My images from Gaza became, almost overnight, a historical archive of a place that has been erased.

Rehaf Al Batniji, artist from Gaza living in Marseille, France

From The New York Times, Opinion, Reported by Nana Asfour, 12/30/25