Sabra / Shatila, Beirut (PP)
Project manager: Alan Gignoux, UK
Project title: Focus: Sabra / Shatila
Photography by Palestinian refugee children
"Despite many things that we don't like in the camp, because it reminds us everything we want to forget - the destroyed buildings the holes in the street - we also find beautiful things in camp life which reminds us always our cause and situation."
Photo by Lina Khaled Chehdé, 16 years, El Yajour
Shatila is a Palestinian refugee camp situated in Beirut, infamous for the 1982 massacre. Catherine Taylor, an Australian journalist, and I developed a project where the children could present their lives in the way they perceive them. We decided to give the children disposable cameras.
We approached Fuji Lebanon and they agreed to sponsor the disposable cameras, development and printing for an exhibition that was held at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut on 12th September 2002. Over two weeks, we distributed a camera a day to ten children from the Beit Alfal Assomoad centre in Shatila.
To find out more information on this project please go to: www.gignouxphotos.com