Tuesday 14 June 2016

En route to Gaza


There are not more fences than barbed wire on the way into Gaza.

In the gray rain of a dirty early morning, the city looks like a huge swamp of spilled garbage, walls stained with red spurs of hatred, crumbling houses and viscous streets where kids wade through mud crisscrossed with tire tracks.

Desolation.

Iron curtain lowered.
Gray minarets and rats dead along the road with a few women in black, wearing a long white haik, carrying their packages on their heads, glowing eyes leaking through their thin triangle of vision.    


About the author

Throughout his life, Alain Dizerens has also worked in kabbutz (Israel) and Hong Kong among other places around the world. After a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and several decades of teaching, Alain Dizerens also presented a variety of "crosstalk kinetic" (dance, electro) performances in Geneva in 1986. He has written other books - Miroir-Temps and l'Arpenteur sidéral among many as well as published a number of photo e-books. Written with a poetic touch, his books quickly absorb the reader in a realistically magical universe, which at the same time never lacks a bit humour.