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Alejandro Gomez-Meade
Smiling young woman in glasses and a blue headscarf standing by a sunlit stone wall, palm leaves in the background
Group of students walking across rocky desert ground under power lines toward distant hills on a hazy day
Young man lighting a small candle among votive candles inside a stone church with rows of wooden pews
Young women wading barefoot through shallow lake water holding their shoes, hills on the far shore, bright blue sky
Students posing and pointing beside a signpost to Jerusalem, Tiberias and Damascus under a blue sky with clouds
Visitors walking toward Israel’s concrete separation barrier, covered in murals and graffiti, on a sunny day, West Bank
Young woman throwing a sheer scarf into the air as she climbs a narrow stone stairway between tall old walls in bright sun
Men and students sitting on rugs around an open fire with coffee pots and baking flatbread inside a cloth tent
Young man in a blue T-shirt kicking a green football with two boys on a sunlit paved street lined with shuttered shops

Journal · 16 Jun 2015

Israel and the West Bank

Filming/photographing a group of high school students in Israel and the West Bank for an upcoming project: A Journey Through Their Eyes. I’ve been documenting these students off and on in Denver for the past year as they learn about conflict resolution, religion and geography of the region thanks to a local non profit. Now they get to visit and experience it for themselves.