--- title: Picturing the Holy Land: Photographers Chart Region's Complexities description: This Place is the collective product, nearly a decade in the making, of 12 renowned photographers who each took up residence for a spell in Israel and the West Bank. canonical: https://time.com/3808863/west-bank-israel-photos/ author: Ishaan Tharoor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-16T08:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:40:29.202Z article:section: World og:title: Picturing the Holy Land: Photographers Chart Region's Complexities og:description: This Place is the collective product, nearly a decade in the making, of 12 renowned photographers who each took up residence for a spell in Israel and the West Bank. og:url: https://time.com/3808863/west-bank-israel-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt949923576b1893c1/6987e6e58e060146fe45daa4/axfb-il-2009-30.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: AxFB-IL-2009-30 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Picturing the Holy Land: Photographers Chart Region's Complexities twitter:description: This Place is the collective product, nearly a decade in the making, of 12 renowned photographers who each took up residence for a spell in Israel and the West Bank. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt949923576b1893c1/6987e6e58e060146fe45daa4/axfb-il-2009-30.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Picturing the Holy Land: 12 Photographers Chart a Region's Complexities > Sponsored content. 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The French _Missions Héliographiques_ in the mid-19th century employed some of the first traders in the fledgling craft to systematically document France’s architectural and cultural patrimony—and what emerged was a startlingly modern blueprint of the past. Under the New Deal, the photography project that accompanied the Farm Security Administration saw the creation of myriad iconic images of rural poverty in America that have, for generations, defined the Great Depression. Gesturing to this tradition, an ambitious new project called _This Place_, nearly a decade in the making, is the collective work of 12 renowned photographers, each of whom took up residence for a spell in Israel and the West Bank. They found their own way of reckoning with a land that is deeply contested and peoples who are irrevocably divided. “Each artist has created a profound and personal narration of Israel and the West Bank,” writes curator Charlotte Cotton, in a statement, “that, collectively, act a series of guides, leading the viewer into a deeper identification” with the complexities and conflicts of the Holy Land. Frederic Brenner, a well-known French photographer who came up with the idea for _This Place_, says the endeavor marks “something quite unprecedented” in terms of the scale of its vision and the terrain that it maps. “I try to look at Israel as place and metaphor,” Brenner recently told TIME. The Holy Land is both the ancient, sacred home of three great monotheistic religions yet also carries with it some of the modern era’s greatest traumas—the memory of the Holocaust, the displacement of the Palestinians, the wars and enmities of the Middle East. But _This Place_ is not an act of photojournalism, nor does it contain — or send — a clear, unified message. “We want to look beyond the political narrative, not to ignore and not to bypass it,” explains Brenner. He and 12 other photographers set about their projects, starting roughly in 2009\. The breadth of the enterprise reflects the range and diverse talents of the enlisted artists. New York-born Fazal Sheikh took to the skies and traced the ghostly outlines of Bedouin communities in the desert. The legendary Czech photographer Josef Koudelka journeyed along the Separation Wall that carves through the occupied West Bank. Wendy Ewald distributed cameras to 14 different groups to generate a remarkable participatory project of some 500 images, selected from thousands taken by members of these disparate communities. Brenner says the experience was transformative for the photographers involved, many of whom for the first time had to come to grips with an environment as fraught and as riven with deep fault lines as Israel and the Occupied Territories. “I really look at Israel as a site of a radical Otherness,” says Brenner, “where every single person is the Other for somebody else.” He hopes _This Place_ offers something of “a mirror,” a lens to see beyond what separates and divides. --- _Find out more about_ **_This Place_**[_online_](http://this-place.org/)_, on_ [ _Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/thisplacephoto)_, and_ [_Twitter_](https://twitter.com/ThisPlacePhoto) **_Ishaan Tharoor_** _is co-anchor of_ [_WorldViews_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/) _at The Washington Post_ ---  Latitude: 31°18'50.23"N / Longitude: 34°40'57.80"E October 4 2011 Jewish National Fund planting of the Ambassador Forest, overbuilt in 2012 by construction of the railway to connect Ashkelon and Beersheba, The Negev Fazal Sheikh  Latitude: 31°12'44.71"N / Longitude: 35°11'59.92"E October 4 2011 Remains of Bedouin homestead, marks of passage, camels traveling along the track north, outskirts of al-Qar’an and Kabu’a unrecognized Bedouin villages, The Negev Fazal Sheikh  Tequoa C from the series Settlement Nick Waplington  Ma'ale Addumin from the series Settlement. Nick Waplington  Mar Saba Monastery, Judean Desert, 9/20/09 © Stephen Shore  Large Crater, Negev Desert, 9/29/09 © Stephen Shore  Unnamed Road 045 Jungjin Lee  Unnamed Road 010 Jungjin Lee  The Weinfeld Family (2009) Frederic Brenner courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery  Sderot (2011) Frederic Brenner courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery  Bethlehem, 2010 Rosalind Solomon  Pilgrims, Tiberius (Sea of Gallilee), 2011 Rosalind Solomon  6 a.m. Bethlehem Checkpoint on the Israeli side ©Gilles Peress  3 p.m. Silwan, East Jerusalem near Ras Al Amud ©Gilles Peress  Al ‘Eizariya (Bethany), East Jerusalem. Although the Wall is the largest infrastructure project undertaken by Israel, no studies have been carried out to evaluate its environmental impact (2010). From Wall, Photographs by Joself Koudelka (Aperture, 2013). ©Josef Koudelka—Magnum PhotosPhotos  Route 60, Beit Jala, Bethlehem area. Specially designed concrete slabs were incorporated into the Wall along major transport routes such as Road 60 to prevent potential attacks (2011). 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