Digital Camera World - UK (2020-03)

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I was a political photographer. Nobody really told

me, but maybe I’ve just not met those type of people.

But that’s interesting. I think that if you say that people

have made these comments, probably you then

have to specify what they consider [to be] political.

So you don’t consider your work to be political?

No.

Can you understand what they’re talking about?

I can understand, because certainly they also know

the situation and they identify with certain things that

are in the book (Wall), and either they react positively

or negatively to the book. I knew that this was going

to happen, but it doesn’t upset me at all.

Why do you choose to shoot panoramas

and landscapes?

If you look at photographers, many of them, as

they were getting older, they were more and more

photographing the landscape. There’s an enormous

difference in photographing a landscape and

Right: Shu’fat refugee

camp, overlooking Al

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