issue 6
// art
Title: Death of god // Artist: Najib Joe Hakim
about the piece
| As a documentary photographer, I try to show the world as I see it. For me right now, Gaza is the center of the earth, yet it is neither possible nor desirable a place to go because – you all know why. As a result, my way of showing it is emotionally expressive, fractured like Gaza itself, appropriated from powerful humanist artists and courageous photographers – and achieved with the ease and safety of a computer on my desk. In these two pieces (from a series called From My Pillow), I’ve invited Goya and Michelangelo to Gaza to join Palestinian photographers on these virtual canvases. How many times since he painted them have Goya’s frightful warring demons resurrected to terrorize humanity? Why has Michelangelo’s Adam been abandoned by god? Am I overlooking something much more straightforward, that these images are simply a reflection of the primordial scream exploding from the shattered illusion of Never Again? Some of my documentary photography projects can be seen at < https://bit.ly/JaffaOrangeSocialProjects >. |
about the artist // Najib Joe Hakim
| Najib Joe Hakim is a working documentary photographer, artist and photography instructor. Hakim also serves as the President of the Board for the Network of Photographers for Palestine and is a founding member of Class Conscious Photographers. He is the recipient of the Rebuilding Alliance Storytellers Award for a trilogy of projects on Palestine, a Political Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and a past nominee for the US Artist Fellowship. |
Instagram: @jaffaorangephotography
Website: http://www.jaffaorangephoto.com
His books are available on MagCloud
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