
Before Freedom
- Publisher
- Atelier EXB
- Year
- 2025
- Specifications
- softcover with dust jacket
23.5 x 30 cm
160 pages
78 colour photographs
French
Texts by Taous Dahmani, Ahdaf Soueif and Mosab Abu Toha
With the support of Fondation Antoine de Galbert
Begun in 2022, the project chronicles the daily life of Palestinians from Jerusalem to Jericho, from Haifa to Hebron and Bethlehem: children playing, families picnicking, friends sharing a meal by the sea, all interrupted by soldiers, checkpoints and the wall that divides. Leaving the codes of photojournalism behind, the images, bathed in natural light, suspend time and offer a counter-narrative of a community seen from within, far from recurring clichés. Three essays accompany the pictures.