About the project

It’s about a weird, deviant society. And it’s about people acting as if it is normal. 

My first trip to Israel and Palestine was an intuitive leap. Nothing turned out as planned. In this state of confusion, I started photographing the everyday conflict and the people living in it. Alongside the actual attacks, clashes and casualties, there is a conflict going on within each person in Israel and Palestine. Ordinary people are making extraordinary choices to get by. Reinforced by the small things that build up hate and the difficult choices everyone is forced to make, the entire region is pervaded by a certain psychological state of mind. People look, but they don’t see. 

This is a project that derives from the part of me that knows that I would probably be defending atrocities too if I was skillfully misled. But don’t be mistaken; those who mislead are also deluded.

There is plenty of fear.

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Life's a Blast is a project from Israel and Palestine that I photographed from 2008 to 2010. I worked randomly, meeting people of all sorts, letting one thing lead to another. I traveled to all the places I read or heard about. Choosing to balance my work by meeting the opponents to those I randomly came across. And slowly building my own picture of the situation in the region.