Tuomo Manninen: We – Ramallah
Photographer Tuomo Manninen has photographed various communities in the Palestinian city of Ramallah: librarians, bus drivers, industrial guards and Mercedes-Benz merchants, children in refugee camps, and men at the border stations. The warm-hearted feel to these photographs of the Ramallah communities have given rise to strong opinions: “Where is the conflict?” “Where are the fighters?” Ramallah has been called alternately a five-star open prison and a terrorist capital. It may be either, or both, but it is also an ordinary city where the children go to school in the morning and the men gather at a local restaurant in the evening to play cards.
The We series is part of Manninen’s group photo project, which has taken him on a photographic journey to 13 countries over the last 20 years. The series featured at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and the Arles photography festival in 2008.
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PVF 2016The Finnish Museum of Photography