Exhibition
The Occupation of Innocence
13 Jun 2023 – 16 Jun 2023
Regular hours
- Tue, 13 Jun
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wed, 14 Jun
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thu, 15 Jun
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Fri, 16 Jun
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 36 Dalmeny Street
- Leith
- Edinburgh
- EH6 8RG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 25, 29, 35, 49
Part of the Scottish tour of the work of young Palestinian photographer Sabrine Mukarkar- Zeidan
About
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, however, 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 heartache and yearning experienced by children and parents is vividly represented in Sabrine’s work. As a mother of two, she is painfully aware of how the children of Palestine have to adapt to an almost unbearable reality. Her pictures tell vivid stories of the lives (and tragic death) of individual children and the harsh reality with which they are faced on a daily basis.
