Open AccessPhotography and the Oppressed: On Photographing the Palestinian Refugees
Author(s) -
Issam Nassar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal for history, culture and modernity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2666-6529
pISSN - 2213-0624
DOI - 10.1163/22130624-00801005
Subject(s) - refugee , agency (philosophy) , photography , palestinian refugees , reading (process) , work (physics) , syrian refugees , media studies , political science , gender studies , sociology , visual arts , art , law , engineering , social science , mechanical engineering
This essay examines photography of the Palestinian refugees by the staff photographers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, unrwa . It attempts to find ways through which a reading of the reality of refugee life can be unearthed from the images that initially were intended to document the work of the aid agency rather than the lives of the refugees.