The Thread Connecting the City

It’s a photographic project that documents a series of snapshots taken between the years 2016 and 2017. These scenes explore the public spaces, transforming them from the ordinary to the extraordinary through the lens of the camera, revealing some of the marginal details of fishermen’s daily habits and the lives of camp residents. Others describe the transformation of the port identity into a recreational area that brings people together on all occasions.

This thread starts with its blue head and moves with small twists, dividing the moments of the city’s people in a blend of the personal and the public to preserve their hearts and the collective memory of a city that only opens its heart at the command of the sound of the waves, the length of the fishing rod, and the gathering of youth in front of it. This thread is called “Al-Bahr Al-Kabir Street” in Gaza City. It connects the north of the city with its south, its east with its west, narratively.

Along the coast, narrow spaces spread out for wandering vendors, but they expand in their conversations and faces. The thread’s stitch does not end in a specific place; it remains in a constant and real weaving of what moves behind the time governed by the city. This thread is the strong extension of the daily renewal square in a completely closed place, granting and denying its people a single, defined, and undefined freedom.

Part 1

Part 2