We've moved!

This blog is now discontinued on blogger and has been moved to

http://translatingsilence.com/blog/

It's currently the only part of the translatingsilence.com site that's up and running, but it's a start. The formatting should be finished after tomorrow.

If you have any questions, please email us at admin@translatingsilence.com. Both Shawn and myself will receive a copy of the email and one of us will definitely be able to answer your question. I can be reached individually at lilith@translatingsilence.com.

I still believe in summer days, the seasons always change...

Still working on the website, with Shawn. It will, god willing, consist of a forum, flash gallery blog, dates page, and will include the option of purchasing prints. If you can help out with the flash, please let me know. In the meantime, a heartening video:

Also, please visit Zoriah's blog and read his latest entries on the situation in Gaza.

Video made by Omar Jaber.

News

The exhibition is pleased to welcome a new contributing photographer, Shawn Duffy. He'll be contributing 12 photos, including the following:

Update

Well, Zoriah's photos are up, captioned and titled, as are mine. Still need to tweak some things in the captions and titles, and revise a few lens vignette issues I'm having with a few of my photos, but other than that, khalas. Ahmad, Ahmed and Mohammed's work will be up some time after January 6th.

Let me know if you have any comments or advice.

A real website is still in the works - I want flash and apparently that's a scandalous fit of ambition. 

Exhibition Update

Things are slow, but they'll get done. I was wondering if I should attempt to do something special in honor of those killed and injured recently in Gaza on here, but it wouldn't be enough. I recently sat down and tried to translate a list of the first 187 victims killed and identified in Gaza for my friends on facebook who are interested but don't read Arabic, and it's overwhelming. If you have a facebook, feel free to add me and we can talk about what's been going on. But I don't have any huge, grandstanding gestures to make this better; I don't think anyone does.

Right now I'm in the process of collecting all of the finished work and getting those pesky titles, captions and photographers' statements. 

Here are a few picture's of Zoriah's that are not going into the exhibition, but should be seen. For those of you who don't know, Gaza was besieged before the recent air raids. Al Jazeera lost their minds, but I don't know if the rest of the world media really addressed the issue beyond a soundbyte. One of the biggest consequences of that siege is that Gazans now are in serious want of basic healthcare items and medicines. Now, with the recent air raids including the bombing of a medical supplies facility and 400+ dead and 2000+ injured, that coincidental lack of medicine and capacity to treat coupled with whatever the hell Hamas is doing at any given moment that is resulting in the injured not getting to Sinai is resulting in a debilitating medical crisis. 

Here are Zoriah's photos, taken in hospitals in Gaza during the medical crisis in 2006.

Click here to see the rest of the Gaza Medical Crisis photo story.

Photo Switch and Additions

This has been switched with the other protest photo, and is a photo of a protest in Nablus against the recent Israeli air raids in Gaza.

These photos are also going into the exhibition:

Photo Switch

This: 

has been switched with the photo to the right, taken at a protest against the Gaza siege and a display of solidarity that took place in Nablus on November 30th, 2008.