Alan Gignoux: Homeland Lost review – a landscape as bereft as its people

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Documentary photographer Alan Gignoux's "Homeland Lost" project, created between 2004-2005 and now exhibited at P21 Gallery, features black and white portraits of Palestinian refugees and their ancestral homes destroyed during the 1948 Nakba. The exhibition highlights the profound connection Palestinians have to their land and the intergenerational trauma of displacement, with eight million Palestinians estimated to have been displaced since 1948.

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P21 Gallery, London Resonant black and white photographs show Palestinian refugees and the sites today of the homes they were forced to leave during the 1948 Arab-Israeli warThese places were once filled with conversation, smells of cooking, laughter, comfort. Now I’m staring into a silent, rubble-strewn abyss.

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