Frames of Annexation

This important new publication is the result of a collaboration between hundreds of people and countless cameras: phones, body-cams, dash cams and CCTV cameras; it is the product of years of co-resistance to the Israeli occupation, presenting visual documentation of human rights abuses and solidarity activism in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. This archive is violent, slow, and enduring. Amidst snippets of settlers driving vehicles into Palestinian herds, using boomboxes to scare sheep, harassing children and waving guns in the air, are moments of endless waiting and idleness. A shepherd makes a fire for tea, an activist reads their book, clusters of cars disappear in the distance. Far from the spectacle of war in Gaza, the slow violence of the occupation chimes on in the West Bank. In May, Frames of Annexation was presented as an interactive video/print installation at Peckham24. This publication came into fruition thanks to an audience who bore witness, laying their eyes upon the crimes of the occupation, each selecting a print at a book fair, far away from the original crime scene. Across the weekend, 219 prints were made, the images have now been sequenced-free from editorial bias-in the exact order they were collected.