For fifty years, photographer Jean Mohr has captured images of life in the Occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel. During those five decades, he took pictures for the International Committee of the Red Cross (with whom he had served as a delegate from 1949-1950). These pictures are part of an exhibition organized by the ICRC and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (based in Geneva). According to the their website, The point here is not to judge, but to understand. This will be brought home to the visitor throughout the exhibition and the events organized alongside it. Those events are intended to shed the light of the past and the present on the commitment to the future of the artisans of peace.
This exhibition has been shown in Jerusalem, Gaza and Ramallah. The BBC is running a series of his pictures on their website, accessible to all. Captions given below are theirs.
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For the last 50 years photographer Jean Mohr has been documenting day-to-day life in Israel and the Palestinian territories for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), seen here on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho in 1950.
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At that time the ICRC set up the first schools for the Palestinian refugees in Hebron…
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…but nearly 20 years later the Six-Day War in 1967 changed the political map. In Kalandia, near Ramallah, an Israeli officer studies a proposal from the ICRC under the gaze of a Palestinian boy.
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In 1979 Jean Mohr returns to the Middle East…
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…where he captures pictures of ordinary people, the worried faces of women, solemn old men…
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…and the expectant attitude of the young.
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In October 2002 Mohr is assigned to prepare a photo essay on ICRC operations where specialists are working with local Palestinian medical teams...
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...and with the Palestine Red Crescent Society running awareness-raising sessions on the danger of anti-personnel mines.
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Fifty years since his first assignment the signs of conflict are everywhere, on the route between Bethlehem and Jerusalem...
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...to the ruins of the Old City of Nablus...
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...and the sandbags and military installations in Hebron. Jean Mohr's pictures reflect, in their own subtle way, the turbulences of the Middle East.
Thank you, Little Human and Omair_Mal1k Especially after my last thread, it’s nice to see at last, in this Forum, that some Guppies make the effort to write positive instead of consistently negative remarks.
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heh :o Just to clarify, i didn’t do anything except copy-n-paste these pictures Real credit goes to the people in these pictures, then to the photographer and to the ICRC for arranging this exhibition…and to BBC for publishing the pictures on their website.
Thank you Ums and Batameez i really appreciate it.
BGJ - You missed the point entirely, i think. Anyways i am definitely in no mood to argue with anyone. It seems that’s all i do in this Forum. To each her/his own.
According to the their website, The point here is not to judge, but to understand. This will be brought home to the visitor throughout the exhibition and the events organized alongside it. Those events are intended to shed the light of the past and the present on the commitment to the future of the artisans of peace.
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50+ years and these ppl are still stuck at understanding. actions are louder than words and i'm sure if they kept the same attitude, we'll see another 50 years passing by with same mentality, i.e : still trying to understand and not trying to judge. nice philosophy to feed hungry minds :)
Theek hai :k: Jab aap khud world poverty ko khatam kar lein gay, and construct schools and orphanages for all of the world’s millions of orphans, then i will give you an award myself with my own hands. Until then, i suggest we BOTH not criticize someone else’s efforts unless we can compare our own efforts equally with others. Since neither of us has done what Jean Mohr has done, let’s give him his credit and focus on our OWN lives.
Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone. Right?
Especially after my last thread, it’s nice to see at last, in this Forum, that some Guppies make the effort to write positive instead of consistently negative remarks.
Real credit goes to the people in these pictures, then to the photographer and to the ICRC for arranging this exhibition…and to BBC for publishing the pictures on their website.