“Photo Essay for Palestine” Fares Fawzy Photo Essay

“Photo Essay for Palestine” Fares Fawzy’’s CreativeRationale:

The purpose of using voice and agency or even protests is to tell people and show them how hard other people are living their lives and how it's not okay for us to leave them to suffer like that. In public, there are different ways to voice your thoughts and ideas such as shouting with the people that fight for the same thing as you and writing on papers and cardboard what the thing that you fight for is. During this unit, I have seen, read and researched various ways people protested, like protesting in real life and writing signs and showing the people them and shouting what they want, in social media by posting on your accounts, by making songs about what you're fighting for, and writing books or poems about the things that you are fighting for.

My first picture is entitled “Dirt” which shows being used up and thrown away, the way it seems people are treating Palestininans. Next is “Anywhere” which means that they have nowhere to live and anywhere is all the places Palestinians are forced to make a home. “Together” means that no matter what we will always be with the Palestinians and that they are not alone. Then I have a picture called “Defend” which means that no matter what we will always defend Palestine from Israel as much as we can. “Alone” is about all the little boys and girls that just get their whole family killed and just suffer so much living alone with no one in their life to take care of them. My photo “Side By Side” means that we can fight injustice with them even if we are not there. “Leaving” means leaving from their own properties and from their families. My last photo “Never” is to tell them we will never stop supporting them.

I think is the most important that Muslim and Arab countries should help because they are our brothers and sisters that keep dying everyday. We all should help them whether it’s with money or with the army. Protesting can be risky because people would want to kill you or hurt you because you believe in something that they don't. When I think about voicing my ideas or using my agency for a social issue, the risk I am taking is that you could upset people that know you who believe in something else. I think the most effective ways to use my voice and my agency include in any way that people can hear me and understand me on social media in real life in front of the people that are against you

“Dirt”

“Together” “Anywhere”

“Defend”

“Alone” “SidebySide”

“Leaving” “Never”