yasmine eid- sabbagh and Ahmad Al-Faour

In her practice, yasmine eid-sabbaghexplores the potential of human action by engaging in experimental and collective work processes, including (counter-)archiving practices such as negotiating around a potential (re)assembled digital archive in collaboration with the inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre, Lebanon, and radical educational projects such as Ses Milanes-creixer à la natura, a self-organized forest education project in Bunyola, Spain, which uses nature as its main infrastructure. Photography serves her often as a medium for investigating notions of collectivity, power and endurance; for example, in her involvement as a member of the Arab Image Foundation, a practitioner-led archival institution, and as part of her PhD in art theory and cultural studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2018).

Ahmad Al-Faour lives in Rashidiyeh, a Palestinian refugee camp by the sea in south Lebanon. He studied social sciences and worked with different national and international organizations on child protection and community participation. He has been involved with different groups and initiatives establishing a participatory space for young women and men to become part of decision-making processes in the camp. Between 2010 and 2017, he established the community cafe “Handala”, that inspired the founding of the Palestinian youth network in Lebanon. He was a project advisor and facilitator for the GIZ, supporting the development of national youth strategies for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, in collaboration with UNRWA and the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee. Ahmad is a leather craftsman, the founder of the Mud Workshop, and part of the negotiation process around the digital repository of digital photographs in Burj al-Shamali.