Rula Halawani

Rula Halawani lives in Jerusalem and teaches photography at Birzeit University, near Ramallah, in the West Bank. Her press credentials enable her to travel from Jerusalem to the West Bank with less difficulty than most Palestinians encounter. These credentials also enabled her to capture these photographs in the midst of incursions wherein Israeli tanks and soldiers rampaged through the streets and buildings of Ramallah. The photographs capture the devastation she witnessed – acts of brutality that have become so regular that they threaten to replace the very idea of the normal. Because these images are printed in negative they force the viewer to pay closer attention to the unfolding drama.