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Rich Wiles/Lajee Center International Photography Tour 2007-08

Rich Wiles and Lajee Center are very pleased to announce the 2007-08 International Palestine Photography Tour. This tour is part of our combined work to mark Nakba 60. Scheduled dates are listed below, we are still open and available for more possible hosts and dates throughout 2008 (please contact for more details: richimages02@hotmail.com and info@lajee.org)

16 Nov – 16 Dec 07: ‘Portraits of Palestine’

The Gallery, Kingswood College of Arts, Hull, UK.

8 Dec – 31 Jan 08: ‘Our Dreams and Nightmares'

De Levante Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Jan – Mar 08: ‘Portraits of Palestine'

Dean Clough Galleries, Dean Clough, West Yorkshire, UK.

March 08: ‘Dreams of Home’

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

April 08: ‘Portraits of Palestine'

Resistance Bookstore Gallery, Paris, France.

May 08: ‘Portraits of Palestine', and ‘Dreams of Home’ & ‘Our Dreams and Nightmares’

Melbourne, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

June 08: ‘Dreams of Home’

UK dates (hopefully with artists from Lajee Center present.)

‘Portraits of Palestine’: Rich Wiles' personal long-term project in Palestine. Images from  2003-07. A personal and intimate collection of environmental portraits of Palestinians attempting to live their lives in the Occupied West Bank.

‘Our Dreams and Nightmares’: Exhibition produced by the New Generation of Lajee Center, Aida Refugee Camp, in 2007. Black and white images illustrating the dreams and nightmares, hopes and fears, of young people growing up in exile and under Occupation. (Artists aged 15-20).

‘Dreams of Home’: Exhibition produced by children from Lajee Center, Aida Refugee Camp, in 2007. A colour project looking for connections between the memories and history of survivors of Al Nakba, and the contemporary realities in the depopulated villages today. Images taken by children during trips back ‘home’ to their villages which their grandparents were forced from during Al-Nakba, providing a historical context and a contemporary reality on issues relating to Right of Return and Al Nakba through the eyes of children. (Artists aged 11-15).

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For further info contact: richimages02@hotmail.com and info@lajee.org