Mikko Takkunen

Palestinians in Lebanon: Chatila pt.1

As some of you might know, I spent a month in Lebanon earlier this year, from mid-August until mid-September, working on a project about Palestinians living in four of the dozen Palestinian refugee camps in the country. I photographed in two of the three Beirut camps, Chatila and Bourj El-Barajne, as well as Beddawi and Nahr El-Bared, in northern Lebanon, near Tripoli. It took me quite a while to start working on the material, scanning, spotting etc, but now I finally have something to share here. I did quite a lot of writing during my stay, interviews and such, which undoubtedly will form an integral part of the final project (whatever form it’ll take), but I haven’t gone through the interview material so far. So, to kick-start the whole thing, I think I’m just going to post some loose edits of the images here for now, first from Chatila (in two parts, as I did most of my photography there), then Bourj El-Barajne, Beddawi, and finally Nahr El-Bared. I’ll add text and some of the interviews later on.

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