"Twice Removed: Photographs from Occupied Palestine"

Wednesday, Sept. 28th - Sunday, Oct. 2nd

Old Market Autonomous Zone, 3rd Floor, 91 Albert Street (above Mondragon).

Montreal photographer and MFA student Darren Ell traveled throughout Palestine in 2002 and 2003. His photographs – portraits, threatened landscapes and haunting intimate spaces – address the impact and portent of the Israeli occupation, which despite all negotiations and agreements since 1991 has entered its 38th year. The title of the exhibition, Twice Removed, refers to a very important reality: as in 1948 and 1967, Palestinians are being removed from their homes and their land. The demolition of Palestinian homes has left tens of thousands homeless; the destruction and confiscation of land occasioned by the Israeli separation barrier is impoverishing and imprisoning an entire people, and leaving them with 12% of historic Palestine. This exhibition explores the crucial underlying issues of this ongoing tragedy. In 2004, Twice Removed received the Prize for Contemporary Issues and the Heather Walker Memorial Scholarship at Concordia University in Montreal. Mr. Ell's work can be viewed at http://www.darrenell.com

This exhibition appears in Winnipeg in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Canada Palestine Film Festival at Cinematheque, and was made possible by SPHR (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights), CPF (Canadian Palestinian Foundation), PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity), Sowers of Hope, QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill, DCI (Defense for Children International), PENGON (Palestinian Network of Environmental NGO’s), and PARC (Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees).