Inter-faces from the Promised Land

Jordan

The title comes from an unease I couldn't shake: this landscape has been promised, named, taken, and reclaimed across three major religions and several thousand years of political history. What does it mean to capture a place so overdetermined by others' stories? Especially from a Western perspective? I took these photos as a form of research, trying to stay inside those question rather than answer them. The work sits alongside research into arts-based methods for engaging with contested heritage and our complex locations within that. In many photos, the composition is one of abstraction, focusing on the textures and the place itself, as if it could tell its own stories.