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Palestine

Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. February 2006. Larry Towell taught a five-day workshop that was organized in collaboration with Rula Halawani, Director of the University's Photo Unit. The workshop was an attempt to enable young Palestinian photographers to tell their personal stories, adding their own photographs to the increasingly large image archive on their homeland. Sixteen young photographers with varying levels of experience participated in the workshop. The workshop gave them the opportunity to develop their technical skills and to experiment the many different ways of communicating through a visual language. They chose to explore a variety of approaches and a wide range of subject matter. The final result is a powerful, colorful, multidimensional representation of their own lives and every day life in Palestine. The workshop was supported by a grant from Foundation Open Society Institute and by a grant from the A.M. Qattan Foundation.

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