Life’s a Blast: Linda Forsell’s Photographs of Israel and Palestine

Life’s a Blast: Linda Forsell in Israel and Palestine

This week’s fiction piece, “Means of Suppressing Demonstrations,” by Shani Boianjiu, instantly made me think of the photographer Linda Forsell’s …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/06/lifes-a-blast-linda-forsell-in-israel-and-palestine.html

Linda Forsell’s project “Life’s a Blast.” The photographs, which Forsell made in Israel and Palestine from 2008 to 2010, were recently published as a book. Forsell, who is Swedish, “worked randomly, meeting people of all sorts, letting one thing lead to another.” The resulting photos and accompanying text provide a unusual perspective, managing to be both intimate and voyeuristic.