Jan 2, 2022
The c-prints in this portfolio are from 4"x5" negatives I made in Palestine in 2009. At the end of my visit, chance intervened when my box of unprocessed film was opened by Israeli security. The negatives were exposed to fluorescent light - obscuring the images. The title of this portfolio, Open, refers both to the action of opening the film box and the antithesis of the apartheid imposed on Palestinians by the Israeli occupation. These works do not claim to carry the burden of proving anything. Instead they are fictions coauthored during the collision of my negatives with the Israeli apartheid state and the experience of a tenacious Palestinian organizer. Morgan Ashcom Charlottesville, VA 2021. (Images c/o Timothy Briner)
