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These are the faces to the countless people who are no more than statistics in the final death toll of a military operation.

Nuria tesón

The Box, was inspired by the confrontation in November 2012 between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza: Operation Pillar of Defense. After covering the war, we decided to go back. We settled down a temporary studio a month after this operation and we portrayed by lighting and writing the people we met during the war.

This three months long Project is the result of our will to portray Gaza when no one is looking at her but also an exploration on how siege and daily conflict affect human beings psychologically. The portraits are and intimate approach to the subjects that verge on the madness and obscurity that lays in the different layers of their consciousness, like a continuous nightmare that they face fearless but disturbed.

The portraits

The stories

the survivors
GAZA | Nuria tesón

The beach is a dump but there is poetry in their waves dashing onto the concrite and twisted iron covering the seaside. Remains of past wars. ... ...

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the box
GAZA | Nuria Tesón
It was November 2012. The IDF gave no truce to the civilian population. The glass windows blown in the air and the narrow neck of land trembled... ...
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the supper
GAZA | Nuria Tesón
His words are like thick smoke that gets tangled in the lips, the nose, the fingers… like milky and dense smoke that dulls mind, reddens eyes ... ...
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seaman without boat
GAZA | NURIA TESÓN
Not too old. Not too Young. He has the sea in his eyes; tiny, dark, smart eyes encircled with wrinkles and a mouth with little, stained, smoker’s teeth. ...
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olive branches
GAZA | NURIA TESÓN
Mariam declines their names like a psalm; a prayer that kept them, that jointed their pieces together, that blew life into their flesh. How can she smile!? ... ...
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the wind
GAZA | NURIA TESÓN
The wind The wind is what drives you crazy, what comb mother’s heads and wipe off the footprints in the sand. The wind. The wind brings water. ... ...
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The portraits

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