Kent Klich: Gaza Photo Album Rebecca Jafari my friends and the surroundings

my friends and the surroundings I move in

and the generations thereafter

In a serie of disturbingly beautiful pictures Kent Klich has mapped the annihilating effects of total destruction in the small symbolic corner of the Middle East that is the locus of it’s endemic controversy

Gösta Flemming • Hard cover • 245 x 284 mm • 102 pages • English/Swedish • 2016

When he died two years ago

Kent Klich: Gaza Photo Album Rebecca Jafari my friends and the surroundingsDuring three weeks at the turn of the year 2008 2009, Israeli military implemented Operation Cast Led an attack against the population of Gaza. More than 2,000 houses were completely destroyed, about 20,000 were damaged more or less badly, and around 900 civilians were killed. Swedish photographer Kent Klich arrived in Gaza when the more acute Israeli acts of war had ceased, and the population tried to recreate some kind of ordinary everyday life from