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Interviewer: Arnaud Contreras
Photo Credit: Mahmoud Alhaj
Hello Mahmoud, can you introduce yourself?
After my journalism studies in 2012, I started working as a visual artist. From 2017 until now I worked as an arts teacher for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the open studio program that is supported by Dutch HOPE foundation. I teach to able and disabled children, to help them express themselves through art.
I deal with different types of media forms, such as photography, sculpture and also video. But in the past two years I turned to digital media so that I can keep up with the crazy flow of events and images around me. You know, we are living in a war zone and every day we have plenty of events and plenty of pictures.
Through my photography and digital work, I aim to present collective experiences where the artwork emphasizes my fragility as an artist and our shared humanity. My first project was an art magazine, ”Art Garage magazine”. It was the first photography magazine in the Gaza Strip* and the second one in Palestine. It was a personal initiative.
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