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The Land That Remains: Photographs from Palestine

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THE LAND THAT REMAINS: Photographs from Palestine

Federico Busonero and Giovanni Fontana Antonelli presented a special book of photographs from Palestine.

 
“The Palestine I visited remained elusive, transfixed in the stillness of its own time. I felt almost like an intruder as I approached the contradictory present topography and demanding past contained within: places of great weight and history, places of many recorded and unrecorded memories, places resonant with human suffering and dignity.”
— Federico Busonero
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The Land That Remains is an elegiac exploration of  a culture and epic civilization vanishing into a cyclically wounded landscape. Originally commissioned by UNESCO, Federico Busonero made three extensive photographic journeys throughout the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory in 2008 and 2009. Using a traditional camera and unmistakably, his heart, he created pictures that illustrate culturally important, rarely seen places in the topography of Mashriq – the “places of sunrise” to the east of the Nile – villages and cities with extraordinary heritage, pastoral rolling hills and ancient olive groves, fertile wadi ecologies, sacred desert cemeteries, and vanishing millennial archaeological sites. A critical, yet neutral gaze, sheds light on the impending loss of Palestine’s cultural legacy – images of today’s broken history being occupied forcefully by another’s reality – reflecting visions of hope sacrificed, in the land that remains. 

 

THE LAND THAT REMAINS

79 color photographs
176 pages
Photographs: Federico Busonero
Photo editors: Anne Sanciaud-Azanza, Federico Busonero
Texts:
The Solitude of the Gods - Anne Sanciaud-Azanza
The Fourth Landscape – Giovanni Fontana Antonelli
The Land That Remains – Federico Busonero
Book design, editor, pre press: Brooks Walker
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
Publication date: April 2016
First English edition

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