Despair and Joy Among the Palestinians – Lens

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New Vantage for a Palestinian Photographer

Osama Silwadi, a 37-year-old Palestinian photographer, can no longer walk. But he cannot give up taking pictures of his land and his people.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/showcase-152/

Given the commotion outside his office in the West Bank one day in 2006 — armed protesters, some of them firing into the air, were marching through the streets of Ramallah — Osama Silwadi, a well-known Palestinian photojournalist, naturally went to the window to see what was going on.

The two bullets that struck him at that moment shattered his spine.