Q. Sakamaki – Gaza: Living in Ruins | LensCulture

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Gaza: Living in Ruins – Photographs and text by Q. Sakamaki | LensCulture

Months after the summer conflict between Hamas and Israel, Q

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I traveled to Gaza in the aftermath to witness the devastation for myself. I took a series of portraits of people living in the ruins of what used to be their homes. I intentionally shot them at night because my conceptual motif for this story is that these people have experienced the darkness of Gaza’s devastation physically and psychologically. This is something I want to shed light on.