Frames of Annexation is the result of a collaboration between hundreds of people and countless cameras: phones, body-cams, dash cams, CCTV cameras. It is the product of years of co-resistance to the Israeli occupation, presenting visual documentation from Israelis who stand in solidarity with Palestinian pastoral communities living under military occupation. The footage is drawn from the archive of the Jordan Valley Activists, a group offering assistance to Palestinian shepherds, whilst documenting law violations and abuse of the local population by illegal outposts.
In May, alongside Jacob Lazarus, ZONE6 presented FOA as an interactive video/print installation at Peckham24.
This publication came into fruition thanks to an audience who bore witness, laying their eyes upon the crimes of the occupation, each selecting a print at a book fair, far away from the original crime scene. Across the weekend, 219 prints were made; the images have been sequenced - free from editorial bias - in the exact order they were collected.
FOA.001, the first book iteration of this project, is an informative 88 page document which following its launch will be free to view online as a PDF. The book features two essays: the first by artist and project coordinator Jacob Lazarus, the second by Dalia Al-Dujaili, who is an editor at BJP and has written for Aperture, The Guardian, GQ Middle East and more.
“Far from the spectacle of war in Gaza, the slow violence of the occupation chimes on in the West Bank.”
Jacob Lazarus is a British documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Israel/Palestine, and a recent graduate of Documentary Photography, the University of the Arts, London. For the past years he has been living in the region documenting solidarity activism in the West Bank as well as activities from the Israeli radical left in Israel. Jacob works with a range of Israeli Human Rights organisations and activist communities.
ZONE6 is a London based publishing house, with a focus on the printing and production of narrative driven documentary photography. Often incorporating handmade elements, the books produced are often concerned with memory, the passing of time and how images have become intertwined in our concept of both past and present. ZONE6 was founded in 2020, all output is curated and edited by Johnny McMullan.