Moving on – Moving back – Moving on


the word: CHAOS carved into a window glas
Tel Aviv, 2005 … window found on 3rd floor of a Bauhaus architecture house in Neve Tzedek (Abode of Justice, also name for God/Jeremiah 50:7); establ. 1887 as 1st Jewish neighborhood outside walls of ancient Jaffa port, Neve Tzedek is now a trendy area in South-West Tel Aviv.


beach in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv shore, Mai 2005


beach in Gaza
Gaza shore, May 2005


beach in Al Arish
Al Arish shore, January 2004


map showing cities in the Westbank
view from Mount Nebo, Jordan; map depicting cities and Christian sites in the Westbank

Founded in the 2nd century BC Gaza is one of the oldest (living) cities, sited at one of the oldest crossroads.

The Phoenicians called it Gaza, in their language a fortress.
The Canaanite called it Gaza, which meant very special.


map with cities in the Westbank + self made map of Gaza
view from Mount Neba, Jordan; map depicting .... and the missing link

The piece of land called Gaza Strip has 40km coastline, 11km borderline with Egypt, 62km borderline with Israel and is between 6 and 12km wide, with a total of 360sq km.

In 1999 significant natural gas supplies were discovered off Gaza’s coast.


 big in-door aquarium
Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre, 2006

.... observed like fish in an aquarium; examining a people who cannot move, who are stuck and depending on everything from outside: food, electricity, water, petrol, paper, medicine ....

round sitting area with round window
Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre, 2006

... a laboratory: people under inhuman conditions, at full mercy of the occupier; endurance highly demanded, with constantly unfulfilled promises of change ...

blue tiled wall, water flows down from it
Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre, 2006

words and photography by Rayelle Niemann, 2005/2006/2009

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Francisco Paco Carrascosa ]
Dector Dupuy ]
Erik Dettwiler ]
Sherif El-Azma ]
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Fawzy Emrany ]
forget 2 forget ]
Lamya Gargash ]
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Ulrike Kuschel ]
Heinrich Lüber ]
Christin Lahr ]
Mariann Landolt ]
Björn Larsson ]
Emanuel Licha ]
Laura Martin ]
Naeem Mohaiemen ]
moddr_ ]
Rayelle Niemann ]
No Condition is Permanent ]
Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis ]
Pilgrimages ]
Silvia Popp ]
stadt.labor ]
Vassiliea Stylianidou ]
Treibsand ]
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Laurence Vale ]
Costa Vece ]
Lee Wen ]
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