Make faces, not war

September 17, 2007 8:56 AM

The Face2face project.JR, an "undercover photographer", and Marco, a technology consultant, had 41 people - israelis and palestinians - mugging for the camera and plastered the huge, unavoidable pictures on both sides of the Israeli West Bank barrier, pair by pair : one israeli, one palestinian, both having similar jobs and posing in a similar fashion (+an imam, a rabbi and a christian priest). See also the trailer (YT, other videos available on the main site).
posted by elgilito (15 comments total)

But, but, but...they are all savages that will rape our women and eat our children!
posted by well_balanced at 9:00 AM on September 17, 2007

I love these.
posted by Lord_Pall at 9:13 AM on September 17, 2007

Awesome post and project. Thanks!
posted by dobbs at 9:27 AM on September 17, 2007

Nice!
posted by jquinby at 9:42 AM on September 17, 2007

This made ma grin, then break out in a laugh. Despite all the things that make me say, "bring the bombs, start civilization over," things like this remind me how fun humanity can be, too.
posted by notsnot at 9:44 AM on September 17, 2007

Genius, that kinda restores your faith in humanity.

Humour, the sillier the better - well extremists the world over just hate that sort of thing.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 10:17 AM on September 17, 2007

Fantastic photos. Great idea. Big brass ones.
posted by chuckdarwin at 10:44 AM on September 17, 2007

This is good!
posted by rfbjames at 10:54 AM on September 17, 2007

Great post. Too bad I didn't find out about these while they were up. Would've loved to see them live.

"יהי שלום בחילך, שלוה בארמנותייך"
posted by FeldBum at 11:11 AM on September 17, 2007

That was so cool! I love this project.
posted by thehmsbeagle at 11:45 AM on September 17, 2007

These are very cool.

Also, did anyone notice that in the last photo, the scary bunker-like watchtower has graffiti that says "Place bomb here" with a big arrow?
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 12:03 PM on September 17, 2007

That's pretty cool.

Though I am always struck by something about pictures of Israel. The people seem unusually happy and levitated for what you see around them.

I mean seriously. Look at that place. When I was there in 1980's it was bad. But now? Outside some of the agricultural areas it's a devastated shit hole. God. So depressing. I don't know how they do it day to day.
posted by tkchrist at 1:09 PM on September 17, 2007

Wonderful post--thank you.
posted by rumposinc at 3:18 PM on September 17, 2007

An imam, a rabbi and a christian priest walk into a bar...
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:57 PM on September 17, 2007

Thats kind of a little bit of awesome....
posted by fatcatslimslim at 7:03 PM on September 17, 2007