Too much time on our hands - A project in Palestine

Too much time on our hands is a project for my final year in a Ba photography course at the London College of Communication in London.

But first it is a documentary and support project about Palestine and the current conflict unfolding in the area, involving the locals, associations and NGO's acting on the ground and hours of dedication, interviews, videos directly on site to document the reality and situation of the Palestinian's daily life.

Embracing a long term interest for report and documentary photography/films as well as my recent studies and background in fine art the project is a balanced blend between this two fields that rarely meet nowadays but nonetheless open up some possibilities for a new approach in journalism, medias and politics.

The main subject is the segregation Wall and its impact on site, on the locals and their struggle to live a normal life, adressing the issues on mass medias and the biased discourse vehiculated by the iconography of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Building up on the statement that the Wall can be considered as the main center of focus but at the time time virtually removed or erased, the project aim is to investigate the alternative paths and ways of approaching a documentation of the topic without emphasising the presence of this physical object: therefore to depict the effects of the Wall without visually embodying it at any moment.

The project engulfs film footage as well as photography and some installation based sculpture to dissect the layer of interpretattion of this object of topicality as well as the concerns about the legitimacy of such an object in an artistic discourse and space.

It approaches and encapsulate the usually bloody, dramatised, over exposed scope of images used to adress the subject to turn it into a more poetical and lyrical realm, questioning the inherent problems, ideological and political issues affecting the process, to establish an new visual vocabulary lifting up the seriousness of the situation.

Teaser:

I'm a 27 years old self-taught photographer, I've been practicing for over 5 years in several and different fields such as still life, portraits, fashion and recently photo-report.

I've gain a concrete and dense on-the-job experience which allows me to acquire an independent, keen and rigorous way of working, get used to operate in a fast- paced and ever changing environment as well as an awareness of the requirements of this discipline.