The scene cut (2018 – 2019)

This project is a visual reflection on the interrupted, unfinished nature of daily life in Gaza. Composed of manually “cut” photographs, edited to mirror the fragmentation of experience, it captures the constant stops and starts, the daily gestures left suspended, and the quiet violence of living inside invisible limitations.

Everything here feels edited out: sky from sky, action from consequence, time from continuity. These images don’t simply show scenes; they reveal a rhythm of interruption, one so repeated that it begins to feel complete, an aesthetic of survival in an environment where nothing is allowed to flow naturally.

The deeper I looked, the more I noticed how this fragmentation has crept into our subconscious as Palestinians. We live within too many boxes, physical, emotional, political, but we survive them. Sometimes all it takes is one point of focus, or a fleeting moment of grace, to remember how to breathe again inside this daily arena of quiet struggle.

Cut Scenes is not just a photo series. It’s a map of every moment we tried to begin something small and meaningful, but couldn’t complete it, because the weight of restriction, once again, overflowed.