[alt-media-res] Tadamon exhibtion, photographs by Pennie Quinton

[Pennie Quinton]

Hi everyone, 

I am really pleased to invite you to an exhibition which opend on the 2nd of September at Freedom gallery, above Freedom book shop next to the Whitechapel art gallery.
I hope to see you all in a few weeks.
best 

Pennie

Tadamon 

 



Photographs
by Pennie Quinton  

  

Images of
solidarity and strength in Palestine  

  

Tadamon
means solidarity in Arabic and these images show moments of strength witnessed
in the Palestinian struggle for survival. 

  

Moments
following extra-judicial killings of beloved members of the community wanted by
the Israeli government. 

  

Moments in
which people in the West Bank are forced to deal with their confusion and pain
brought on by the Gaza war of 2008/2009 – combined with the Palestinian Authority
clamping down on protest in the West bank at this desperate time. 

  

Moments
such as the bravery of children whose first language has become the politics of
survival, out on the streets hurling stones at the wall following yet another
bombardment of their cousins in Gaza.  

  

Or moments
of the villagers of Nilin and Belin facing tear gas and stun grenades in their
protests, held every Friday since 2004, resisting the illegal apartheid wall
built on village lands. 

  

There is a
saying in Palestine that ‘to be Palestinian is to exist to resist‘ and this
essential stubbornness and refusal to disappear, this insistence on being
continually present in the face of ongoing repression that interferes in every
area of life, is a potent force in the demand for sovereignty. 

  

The price
of this is high, and people have been paying it since 1948. But there is no
choice but to keep on paying it to resist is to survive. 

  

I love and
admire this Palestinian strength in the struggle for self-determination and the
moments where dancing and joy overflow despite everything. 

. 

I am proud
to share some of these moments I was honoured to witness during my work in
Palestine. 

  

Tadamon
Exhibition opens on the 2nd September at the Freedom Gallery. above
Freedom book shop in Angel Alley off Whitechapel High Street. Nearest Tube
Aldgate East. 

  

The Tadamon
Exhibtion is open 12.00 – 17.00 Monday to Saturday until October the 5th. 

  

 

Pennie Quinton 
0044 7981 184 474
http://itsmefumingrightsinit.blogspot.com/
 www.Imemc.org 
www.london.indymedia.org.uk/ 




      
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