During 2011 the small village of Amniyr in South Mountain Hebron was demolished five times by the Israeli authorities. Although ten families were forcefully displaced, Mohammed Hussain Jabour and his wife Zaffra refuse to leave.

When we started to act as a collective we set a goal to use photography as an instrument to create awareness on topics that we, as people who live in this time and place, aspire to change socially or politically. We believe in the power of people to create change in their own society, therefore we wish to directly address indivi-duals and groups with our work. While we do work with mainstream media, they may avoid certain subjects for political or commercial reasons, and so we find it important to create alternative media channels that reach wide publics in more independent, unfiltered, and direct ways.The use of city walls as a platform to exhibit our work generated from this agenda. In Israel, as in other places around the world, it seems that what isn’t shown in the mainstream media does not exist; therefore, a need for public debate does not exist. By hanging photographs   on city walls we try to break this cycle by displaying images that both the media and the public ...

In 2007, a new wave of African refugees began arriving in Israel. Most come from Sudan and Eritrea, areas of genocide and on-going conflict. In Israel they lack legal status or support, and are frequently arrested or left to live on the streets. Often refugees are accused of being “enemies” of Israel, citizens of countries such as Sudan, with which Israel has no official relationship.  Months passed and it seemed that refugees found a home in Tel-Aviv. Community activists helped to provide basic needs such as food and accommodation. Refugees began to form a community, open busi-nesses, re-unite families and start new ones. Refugees and their children began to learn Hebrew and become part of Israel’s cultural and economic capital. And then, in the summer of 2008, Israel’s immigration administration declared that all refugees must leave Tel-Aviv and look for homes in the periphery, far from each other, their jobs and schools, supporting organizations, and the United Nations ...