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"The pictures of empty home interiors scarred by the then-recent attacks of “Cast Lead” are beautifully photographed, perfectly lit and and seem eerily deserted. Gaza’s cinder block houses look so gray from the outside that the color of many photographs becomes quite striking, too. People led normal, happy lives in these rooms, the yellows and purples - as well as the everyday objects in the rooms - seem to say. But now that these homes appear to be abandoned, and time has stopped in a moment of horror, we find ourselves searching for clues. Who lived here? How did they spend their time in these rooms? Were they in the house when the attacks took place? Did people die here?"
(Baumann, H. "Kent Klich." The New Inquiry. 5 May 2010. Web. 30 Sept. 2010. .)
"In this series I was struck by the peaceful and sad spaces I found when I entered the houses and mosques; the furniture left behind witnessed of the stories of people who once lived there… I felt I knew those people; I knew their taste in furniture, colours, fabric, clothes that covered the ground etc. You imagine stories of how they lived, how they used to gather at night all together, how they laughed, argued etc… How they hid from the bombs and how they fled the war, if they ever managed to flee the war… Their spaces and lives were completely violated and I related to that, I wanted to document that. The war had turned their private spaces into public in few seconds and it was very disturbing."
(Baumann, H. "Dalia Khamissy." The New Inquiry. 18 June 2010. Web. 30 Sept. 2010. .)
The first quote says it all. This is what I have been thinking and the questions that I have been trying to invoke in others who look at my photographs. I love the way Klich has photographed the rooms. I am trying to photograph the rooms of the houses that I visit the same way. However, I also want to take photographs of objects up close to accompany the ones of the over all rooms.
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