Pathways to Palestine



This is the long version of the Palestine pictures. The other exhibits on this site are on-line versions of tightly structured print exhibitions. For years I have presented exhibitions that are disciplined, limited to only a small number of the best images, but in this case the need for Palestine and the Palestinians to be better understood outweighs the importance of perfecting this material as a work of art.

Here I have tried to present a sequence that is pleasant to peruse like a book or an exhibition, but this set of images is also mounted so that people who need them can have access to many pictures. Some photographs included here have details that are practically invisible on a computer screen though they may print well, and there is some redundancy. This portion of the site has been mounted before all of the locations and spellings have been checked. Visitors to the site are asked to please advise me when they see information that can be corrected or improved.

This large essay on Palestine begins at Jericho and most of the first half of the work is made of pictures of The Wilderness, the refugee camps near Jericho, Bedouin with their flocks on the hills, and scenes taken in the fields and near villages, gradually moving into the hill country. There are some images of people, and almost all of the pictures contain at least small figures, but the more culturally specific pictures and the ones with more people are in the second half of the section. If you go straight through this material, it will take an hour before you reach Nablus, Hebron, and especially el Quds (Jerusalem). The pastoral roots of this culture demand that anyone seeking to understand Palestine should first spend time out on the land with shepherds. However, for the sake of people who are in a hurry and are looking for specific images, I have listed several subjects below with links that will take them straight to specific areas. If there is sufficient demand, later I may organize the photographs later with rows of thumbnail pictures.




Begin   A Journey in Palestine (100 pictures)



Go to  The Hills of Palestine (8 pictures)




Refugee Camps          Nablus          el Quds (Jerusalem)


Haram es Sharif/Dome of the Rock


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