Karim Ben Khelifa is among the many journalists who are arriving in Yemen, now that it’s at the top of the news. The difference is that he once lived there.
Journalists are now descending on Yemen. Among them is Karim Ben Khelifa, who arrived Friday packing more than equipment. He came with a nuanced perspective.
With “The Enemy” project at M.I.T., the photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa hopes to engender a form of empathy beyond the reach of traditional documentary film.
But when I stand, I quickly find myself in a featureless all-white room, a kind of Platonic vestibule. On the walls at either end are striking poster-size black-and-white portraits taken by the noted Belgian-Tunisian photographer Karim Ben Khelifa, one showing a young Israeli soldier and another a Palestinian fighter about the same age, whose face is almost completely hidden by a black hood.
As a kid growing up in Belgium, photographer Karim Ben Khelifa spent all his school vacations in Tunisia, visiting his aunts, uncles and cousins, enjoying family gatherings in his grandparents’ home, going to the beach. But in the last 20 years, he had be
As a kid growing up in Belgium, photographer Karim Ben Khelifa spent all his school vacations in Tunisia, visiting his aunts, uncles and cousins, enjoying family gatherings in his grandparents’ home, going to the beach. But in the last 20 years, he had been unable to return.
The member photographers included Karim Ben Khelifa, Samuel Bollendorff, Philippe Brault, Guillaume Herbaut, Dominic Nahr, Johann Rousselot, and Michael Zumstein.
