La Palestine photographiée par Joss Dray

Institut du Monde Arabe

On display at the IMA library, a precious testimony to Palestinian daily life, its faces, its places and its memory, through a photographic report carried out twenty-five years ago and never yet shown to the public. Exhibition organized as part of the Journées européennes du patrimoine 2026 and in honor of the new name of the IMA library, renamed Bibliothèque Leïla Shahid, after the great voice of Palestine in France and Europe who passed away last February. In 2001, Joss Dray was commissioned by the IMA to carry out a photographic report in Palestine. Through her photographs, she documents the daily life of Palestinians, whether living in the Palestinian territories, in refugee camps or within the diaspora. Her work notably covers the camps of Jabalia, Shati, Kalandia, Dheisheh, Jénine, as well as several camps in Liban. Joss Dray A French photographer, Joss Dray began documenting the daily life and forms of resistance of the Palestinian people as early as 1987. Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications, including Revenir à Jénine. Une histoire vivante du camp de réfugiés (1989-2018), published in 2020 with a preface by Leïla Shahid.

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