For PRI’s The World
In Myanmar, Facebook has provided women new opportunities for business, activism and organizing, while also being a hotbed of harassment.
I contributed 11 portraits to The Lily that show women in Myanmar who see the good, and the bad, that Facebook has to offer.
You can see the entire story here: https://www.thelily.com/officials-blame-facebook-for-fueling-ethnic-tension-in-myanmar-for-these-women-its-more-complicated/
Fadwa Barghouti, the woman behind Palestine's most powerful political leader. Published by Women in the World in association with The New York Times.
Haneen, in the Ramallah tent for family members of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. "Everyone I know has a family member in jail or who was killed," she says. Published by Women in the World in association with The New York Times.
Fadwa Barghouti with her grandchildren Talia and Sarah. Published by Women in the World in association with The New York Times.
published by NPR's Goats and Soda
published by NPR's Goats and Soda
published by NPR's Goats and Soda
published by AJ+
Indigo in Ajrakhpur, published by AJ+
Trump rally in Jerusalem, published by Al Jazeera English
published by NPR's The Salt
published by NPR's The Salt
Sameera and Yasmin, published by Snap Judgment
Sameera smuggled her husband's sperm from an Israeli prison. She's standing in her kitchen beneath a photo of her 11 year old daughter who died in a car crash and her husband who's been in prison for 14 years. Story published by Snap Judgment.
published by NPR's Goats and Soda
published by NPR's Goats and Soda
published by NPR's Goats and Soda
Omran Shadid, a strawberry farmer near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, takes a cigarette break. Strawberries came to the West Bank in 2009 and Omran invested in them because "The appearance is attractive," he says. "It gives you nice art, good price and a good time."
Part of a series I posted about cultural and religious diversity in Myanmar for AJ+'s Instagram account
Part of a series I posted about block printing for AJ+'s Instagram account
Part of a series I posted on the West Bank Olive Harvest for AJ+'s Instagram account
Rabbis talk about Kashrut policy in Israel while performing ritual slaughter on a baby goat
Celebrating inflated lungs. An animal is kosher only if all its organs are flawless. Lungs are the last organs to check - a rabbi blows air into them to make sure there are no punctures.
Abu Hilme, 66, in Nablus - From a series of portraits commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 War.
Ahmad Yaseen, 22, in Asira al Shamaliya says 50 years since the 1967 war doesn’t mean anything special to him. “I think of everyday as a day to remember the occupation,” he says. “The purpose of the anniversary is to say ‘Okay - What am I going to do about it?’” What Yaseen decided to do is to make art. His latest is a portrait of Om Aseer Shahib, mother of a prisoner who died in prison two months ago. From a series of portraits commemorating the 1967 War.
Aurora Cafe - a hub for liberal activists in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest authorities are threatening to shut it down. For the Forward.
A fringe group of settlers in the West Bank city of Hebrom celebrating Purim. Costumes from left to right: terrorist, clown and "Palestinian woman."
Tamar Halfon from South Carolina celebrates Purim in the West Bank city of Hebron. I asked about the camera around her neck. "If they throw a stone, now I'll be able to know who it was" she said.
Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem has been a hotbed of tension in the past few years
Yellow cauliflower sold outside Qalandiya checkpoint in Ramallah. It is mostly grown in the craggy no mans land between Jerusalem and the West Bank. It's only available for a few weeks in the middle of winter.
A West Bank liquor store, but if you look closer you'll see boys' passport photos lining the shelves. The boys in Taybeh want to go to America so they bring their pics to Sarri, a US citizen and owner of this shop. He moves the pictures from the bottom row to the top when the boys leave for the US.
Since 2008, I have been collecting photographs that examine art production by women as a catalyst of economic development, women's social empowerment and financial independence, and social change.
To browse my layout of the photos online, click here.
Proudly wearing a NLD tank printed with Aung San Suu Kyi's face in Yangon months after Myanmar's first democratic election in 2015
polishing a bumper sticker of Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon months after Myanmar's first democratic election in 2015
Paw Lo, a driver for four Pakistani women in Yangon. He drives a Honda hatchback and has a tattoo of an octopus on his left arm.
Organic Kala Cotton in Kutch, Gujarat - published by Free Press Journal, India
published by Times of Israel
Om Ahmed, Surif, West Bank. Published by Times of Israel
published by HAND/EYE Magazine
published by HAND/EYE Magazine
Jerusalem summer 2015
Kugel in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem's most extreme religious neighborhood
Jerusalem summer 2015
