Instead of focusing exclusively on violence, which is not hard to find in Palestine, Before Freedom seeks to answer not just personal questions about my place in relation to Palestine, but also, more broadly, questions about representations, colonialism, and image-making such as: How has photography enabled the colonization of Palestine? How can we deconstruct the false dominant representations of Palestinians? How can photography act as a decolonial prism to disentangle the knot of history and counter structures of oppression and inequality that are rooted in colonial architectures of domination? By simply photographing the quotidian--affirming the social and the material reality of Palestinians today--Before Freedom aims to denaturalize outdated representations that enable ongoing violence.
