Palestinian photographer Ahmad Al-Bazz’s The Erasure of Palestine brings together three years of research and photography across hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns whose residents were displaced and whose built fabric was destroyed from 1948 onwards. The book traces what remains of these places and the lands over which a new settler-colonial landscape was built. Bringing photography into dialogue with research and historical testimony, it looks at memory, absence, and the continuing erasure of place, while asking what it means to document and reclaim these histories.

In this conversation, Ahmad will speak about the research and fieldwork behind the project, and the visual archive the book has assembled of places once integral to Palestinian life.

The conversation will be held in Arabic.
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Ahmad Al-Bazz, born in 1993, is a multi-award winning video-journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Nablus. He holds an MA in Film and Television Studies and Creative Practice from the University of East Anglia in the UK, and a BA in Media and Mass Communication from An-Najah National University in the West Bank. He has been a member of the Activestillsphoto collective since 2012. Ahmad has made 2 documentary short films, “To My Mother” (2014) and “Homenessness” (2018), both films were screened in several regional and international film festivals. In 2025, Ahmad published his photography book “The Erasure of Palestine”. He just finished his first feature length documentary film “Donkey Boys” expected to be released at the end of the year.