Sabrine's Visit to Scotland

“The Occupation of Childhood”

“Every year, hundreds of Palestinian children are detained by Israeli authorities. They are the only children in the world who are systematically prosecuted through military, rather than civilian, courts.The most common charge is throwing stones – for which the maximum sentence is 20 years in prison.”(Save the Children- Palestine)

Our photographic portrayals of childhood often involve notions of “sweetness” and “innocence”. But can these qualities persist in a childhood under Occupation ? 

Sabrine Mukarkar- Zeidan spends her life photographing children. The families that visit her studio usually like to preserve memories of their children untainted by the daily harassments of an occupying power.

In this exhibition she portrays the lives of Palestinian children beyond the confines of the studio, and poses the question: can innocence survive in a country where children are systematically oppressed by a brutal occupying power?

The Network of Photographers for Palestine is proud to sponsor this outstanding young photographer in a tour of Scotland from 1st-20th August this year.We will be accompanying Sabrine around the Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee (as well as the Isle of Arran) where she will exhibit her work and talk about her experiences as a photographer and mother of two in the Occupied West Bank.

Your contributions will cover: printing and framing

                                                 accommodation

                                                 travel expenses

                                                 hospitality

We thank you for your donations, and hope that we will have the opportunity to meet you on our tour of Scotland this August.