Monday, September 25, 2006

Photographier l'attente (1) / Photographing the waiting moments (1)



(c) Anne Paq/tourbillonphoto.com
Container checkpoint; September 2006.
Voir aussi les photos ci-dessous/ See also pics below.

25 septembre 2006.

Comment photographier l’attente?
L’attente que vit tous les jours aux Palestiniens aux checkpoints;
Ces heures perdues pour rien.
Ce week end a cause de la fête juive de la nouvelle année, les territoires palestiniens etaient bouclés. Les checkpoints etaient beaucoup plus nombreux et difficiles à passer, aloes que le Ramadan commence pour les Palestiniens et qu’ils veulent rendre visite à leur famille.
Je me souviens d’un dialogue entre un Palestinien et un Israelien auquel j’ai assisté lors d’une précédente fête juive « Alors parce vous voulez faire la fête, nous devons rester à la maison ».
Comment photographier ces heures perdues ; ces parties de vie gachées ?
Au checkpoint de container (entre Abu Dis et Bethlehem), entre deux villes de Cisjordanie (pourquoi alors mettre un checkpoint la), nous avons passé une heure. Embouteillage monstre, accident entre un bus et un taxi (il n’y a pas assez de place pour toutes les files de voitures), soldats qui font passer les voitures au compte-goutte ; chaleur et poussiere ; tout etait reuni pour assurer une frustration et exasperation maximales.
Comment photographier tout cela ?- me demandais-je alors que je photographiais la scene chaotique du taxi.
Mettre un effet dans les photos- somme toutes banales de gens qui attendent- comme pour dire- Hey ces photos banales ne doivent pas etre considerees comme annodines, elles representent la quintessence de l’occupation. Les couleurs et les traits sont saturés, comme le sont les Palestiniens. Saturés de toute cette attente, qui les ronge chaque jour. S’il vous plait, regardez les.

ENGLISH
How to photograph the fact of waiting?
Waiting, and waiting- this is what Palestinians have to do everyday at checkpoints.
Hours wasted for nothing, lost forever.
This week end was the beginning of the Jewish Celebration for the New Year. As a result, a siege had been imposed on the Palestinian territories. More checkpoints had been set up and it was much more difficult- if not impossible- to circulate whereas it coincided with the beginning of Ramadan, during which Palestinians have to visit each other.
I remember a small dialogue between a Palestinian and an Israeli concerning another Jewish celebration: “So because you guys want to have a party, we are supposed to stay at home?!!!”.
How to photograph these hours lost, these wasted parts of life?
At container checkpoint (located between Abu Dis and Bethlehem) right in the middle of the West Bank (so why do we need a checkpoint between Palestinian villages there?); we spent around one hour. Giant traffic jam; incident between a bus and a taxi (there is not enough space for all the queues of cars); soldiers who randomly let cars go or not one by one and check them; the heat and the dust…everything seemed to have been diesigned to produce maximal frustration and exasperation.
How to photograph all that?- I was wondering as I was photographing the scene from the taxi?
What if I put some effects on these banal pictures- as to say: hey! These pictures should not be considered as banal; they deserve your attention. They represent the essence of the occupation. The colours and traits must be saturated, as the Palestinians are. Saturated from all this waiting; which eat them piece by piece, day after day.
Please look at them.

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