Photos from “Keep Your Eye on the Wall,” a book conceived and edited by Olivia Snaije and Mitchell Albert. It brings together seven award-winning artist-photographers and four essayists, including an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, all responding to the Wall in images or words specially commissioned for this book. The photographers present unique perspectives, whether documenting the journey of laborers across the barrier, the desolation of abandoned checkpoints, a surreal grey bulk cutting across a landscape or the tattered posters of “martyrs” on a wall in Gaza.
Olivia Snaije interviews Mohammed Matter, one of the founders of Gaza Youth Breaks Out (GYBO) and known until a month ago as Abu Yazan. Matter discusses GYBO, life in Gaza and living under the Israeli attack this past summer.