NYT has a piece called "Gaza, Through Fresh Eyes," featuring the photography of Katie Orlinsky and an article by Ethan Bronner that then quotes Orlinsky. Watch Bronner work:
Bronner:
for nearly everyone who visits Gaza, often with worry of danger and hostility, what’s surprising is the fact that daily life, while troubled, often has the staggering quality of the very ordinary.
Funny, Orlinsky doesn’t quite seem to see it that way:
"From the bullet hole in the wall above the child playing on his outdated computer in a middle-class home, to the couple having dinner sipping Coca-Cola smuggled in from Egypt, the situation in Gaza — the war, the blockade, Hamas — touches everyone,” she said. “I saw energetic, smart young women learning about the world in university, and I saw young girls who spent their days sorting through trash to find reusable materials to sell to factories for a few measly shekels. I saw happy families taking a break from their daily struggle to have a picnic on the beach, and met a traumatized family who hasn’t been to the beach in two years even though it’s only a 15-minute drive from their home."
Oh and check out Orlinsky’s photo of a Gazan widow, her husband killed by the Gaza onslaught. Magic.
