In what Vice News calls a “beautiful, eerie, and markedly unobtrusive document of Palestine’s past and the West Bank’s precarious present,” British photographer James Morris discusses his new book “Time and Remains of Palestine” with the publication.
In the interview he describes his book, “I think of the project as exploring a part of both what happened to Palestine in 1948 and where it finds itself now, through looking at this very particular “man-altered landscape.” It follows a historical trajectory that links past and present, starting, in part one, by probing the now historic Palestinian presence in much of Israel, documenting the sites of some of the 400 or so villages and numerous towns that were depopulated and in most cases razed as a consequence of the 1948 war and later conflicts. [Part two] documents the fabric of occupation and conflict in the labyrinthine West Bank, a land zoned into multiple and convoluted “areas,” divided by walls and fences, checkpoints and road blocks, and reduced by settlements.”
