[Interview with Ahmad Al-Bazz] A Palestinian photographer’s ‘search for what remained’ from 1948 (+972 Magazine, 2026-05-12)
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-destroyed-villages-nakba-photography/
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>> When Nablus-based journalist Ahmad Al-Bazz received an Israeli travel permit, he rushed to visit nearly 200 villages depopulated in the #Nakba. Five years later, his new book [_The Erasure of Palestine_] offers a powerful visual archive of erasure.
>> … I sat down with him to discuss his transformed understanding of historic Palestine, the narratives that structure how Jewish Israelis relate to Palestinian ruins, and the ambiguous relationship between #photography and memory…
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Ahmad Al-Bazz, _The Erasure of Palestine_ (Museums etc., 2025)
£35 [paperback] | £25 [eBook]https://museumsetc.com/products/the-erasure-of-palestine
———>> _The Erasure of Palestine_ is the outcome of a three-year journey by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz, who set out to document what remains of the hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns depopulated and destroyed during the creation and expansion of Israel from 1948 to the present.
>> Today, unmistakable traces of destroyed Palestinian communities haunt nearly every Israeli settlement, revealing not just a past catastrophe but an ongoing process - a continuing history of colonisation and removal. Combining visual evidence, field research and historical testimony, Al-Bazz shows that what began as a single act of ethnic cleansing has evolved into a sustained strategy of occupation and erasure…