Make faces, not war
September 17, 2007 8:56 AM Subscribe
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).
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
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
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
posted by chuckdarwin at 10:44 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
"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
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
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
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
An imam, a rabbi and a christian priest walk into a bar...
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:57 PM on September 17, 2007
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
posted by fatcatslimslim at 7:03 PM on September 17, 2007
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