I Grant You Refuge Photo exhibition

I GRANT YOU REFUGE” is a collective photo exhibition featuring extraordinary images by six photographers from the Gaza Strip, representing the dozens of photojournalists who live and work in the area, eyewitnesses to one of the most devastating conflicts of our time.

The exhibition aims to give voice and visibility to the suffering and atrocities that the Palestinian people are enduring, in the deafening silence of the Western media.

The exhibition takes its name from one of the last poems by Palestinian poet, novelist, and teacher, Hiba Abu Nada. The poem was written on October 10th just ten days before she died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli airstrike on October 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

Curated by Paolo Patruno

Jehad Al-Sharafi
Jehad Al-Sharafi is a photojournalist and humanitarian worker currently living in Gaza, facing significant challenges due to the ongoing war for over a year. He has worked with several international organizations, striving to capture the suffering of people and the reality of life under continuous bombardment and danger. He has personally been exposed to bombings multiple times and lost most of his photography equipment, which has greatly impacted his work. Jehad message to the world is: “Stop the killing of children and women, and stop the war”.
@jehad_alshrafi

Mahdy Zourob
Mahdy Zourob is a photojournalist from Gaza City. He studied media and mass communication at Al-Azhar University. He has participated in many local exhibitions and took part in the International Committee of the Red Cross competition for photography and blogging, Light in the Darkness. He has a great passion for photographing food, nature, and cars as well. In light of the brutal war waged by the occupation on the Gaza Strip, he turned to documenting the suffering and the violations Palestinian people face, including policies of starvation, killing, destruction, and displacement of innocent civilians. He has worked on creating photojournalistic stories and sharing them with the outside world through different international platforms.
@mahdy_zourob

Mohammed Hajjar
Mohammed Hajjar is photographer and journalist based from Gaza Strip, he won many of awards in local and international, and works as freelance with newspapers and press agencies since 2007. He has covered all events in Gaza and Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
@mhmed_hajjar

Omar Ashtawy
Omar Ashtawy is photojournalist based in the Gaza Strip, with three years of experience covering the ongoing developments and events that document the stages of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has worked as a staff photographer for APA Images, focusing on impactful storytelling in this complex region. Additionally, he has freelanced for the German Press Agency and Reuters, contributing to a diverse array of projects. His work aims to shed light on the realities of life in Gaza and the broader implications of the conflict.
@omar_ashtawy

Saeed Mohammed Jaras
Saeed Mohammed Jaras is a photojournalist from Gaza City. He has been covering the ongoing conflict since October 7 until today, he has worked as a photographer for more than one local and international agency, including the Middle East Photography Agency. Saeed has been injured several times during his journalistic work, including an injury to his foot and one of his knees. This was during this war on March 31, 2024, when a missile was fired at a tent next to the tent of journalists present there. At that time, his photography equipment and laptop were damaged, and he felt that he would not be able to complete his journalistic and professional career in the world of photojournalism, as his foot was severely injured and his equipment was destroyed. He has continued his journalistic work, defying all the difficult circumstances as well. Saeed hopes that peace and stability will prevail and that we will see everything for the better.
@said.m.jaras

Shadi Al-Tabatibi
Shadi Al-Tabatibi is a professional photographer from Gaza with extensive experience in photography since 2013. His passion for photography began when he purchased a camera with his own savings, and since then, this passion has transformed into a career filled with achievements. Shadi initially focused on capturing the beauty of Gaza City, including lives of its people. He later expanded into photojournalism, skillfully combining both photography and videography. In 2020, Shadi specialized in drone photography, excelling in this field by showcasing the city’s beauty from fresh, innovative angles, reflecting his expertise in covering major events. His work has been recognized by prestigious international agencies.
In addition to his career as a photographer, Shadi has participated in numerous local and international competitions, demonstrating the value and impact of his work in the artistic arena. His work is characterized by a unique style that combines creative vision with technical precision, enhancing his ability to convey visual stories and human experiences in a powerful and moving way.
@shadi_tabatiby

Todd Hido: Intimate Distance, Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album

By Todd Hido

Publisher : Aperture

2025 | 320 pages

An expanded chronology charting Todd Hido's career, with ten years of new work.

Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing, and for his use of detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book's first publication, including breathtaking new images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan, where he brings both a familiar eye and an expansive new vision.

Though Hido has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work, this gathers his most iconic images, along with many unpublished works to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting ways. David Campany introduces the work and looks at the kind of cinematic spectatorship the work demands. And Katya Tylevich muses on the making of each of Hido's major monographs, "The photographs lead as far as human-made roads go. They reach the periphery of utility wires, footprints, and paths already taken." From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, from landscapes to nudes, from America and beyond, this midcareer collection reveals how his unique focus has developed and shifted over time, yet the tension between distance and intimacy remains.

All About Todd Hido

Stephen Shames: A Lifetime in Photography

By Stephen Shames

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2025 | 228 pages

The life’s work of one of the most important photojournalists of our time, covering major events in American history from the 1960s to present

Stephen Shames is an American photojournalist for more than five decades. In his award-winning photo essays, he draws attention to social issues such as child poverty and racism. During his career Shames authored numerous books, among others Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers and Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America. Kehrer Verlag is now publishing a comprehensive book containing many unpublished photos. Although Shames photographed many diverse subjects including presidents from Kennedy to Obama, activists and visionaries like Martin Luther King or Stephen Hawking, and people from countless cultures, there is a thread connecting his pictures: Shames’ photos of children and families focus on what tears us apart and binds us together: violence and abuse, but also love, hope, and transcendence. The images come from his heart and soul.

Ralph Gibson: Photographs 1960-2024

By Ralph Gibson

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 552 pages

Travelling widely, Ralph Gibson works primarily in inspired series, associated image reveries in both monochrome and colour, whose titles―The Somnambulist, Déjà-Vu, Days at Sea, and Chiaroscuro―underline the particular poetic sensibility that informs his work. Starting out in 1960 with Dorothea Lange, he made his way to New York in 1967 and was soon considered in the same light as the likes of Larry Clark and Diane Arbus. The photographs and series can of course speak for themselves. But for Gibson there is a philosophy at play behind the image, and in the included short texts he proposes his thesis. Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives―loyal to his Leica, Gibson ranges between genres and creates new categories of vision. He gets closer to things and meditates on them in a way that only the silence of the image can attempt.Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this book offers the fruit of more than six decades of image-making. From Gibson’s first photographs in San Francisco, Hollywood, and New York in the 1960s right up to the present day, this is the most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed photographer.

All About Ralph Gibson

Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004

By Richard Avedon

Publisher : Phaidon Press

2025 | 208 pages

An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers

For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the “avalanche of age,” dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.

Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Immortal is the first book to delve into Avedon’s unflinching representation of aging throughout his career.

This elegant hardcover volume features nearly 100 portraits of cultural luminaries, each printed in striking tritone, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp, Duke Ellington, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, and Stephen Sondheim, as well as one of Avedon’s last self-portraits. Texts by a star-studded cohort of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth, and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an under-represented element of Avedon’s practice.

Thoughtfully edited and beautifully produced, Immortal testifies emphatically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.

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