In Belgium, 100 Photographers Promote Their Works for Gaza — Blind Journal

At the Centre culturel Les Chiroux in Liège, the partitions have opened to a remarquable collective initiative. One hundred photographers have answered the decision of “For Gaza,” an exhibition-sale organized from September 4 to October 4, 2025, in assist of the civilian inhabitants of Gaza. In a context of insufferable struggling, artwork right here turns into each testimony and motion.

The names gathered type a constellation of up to date images: Alice Pallot, Massao Mascaro, Nick Hannes, Vincen Beeckman, Véronique Vercheval, Lucas Leffler, Pauline Vanden Neste, amongst many others. Some are established figures, others rising voices. All have agreed to donate one picture, obtainable in two codecs and printed in editions restricted to 5 copies per format, as a way to enable as many individuals as potential to take part. The works, intentionally various, vary from portrait to panorama, from documentary to experimental observe. They don’t all communicate immediately of the battle, however every carries, in its personal manner, a gesture of solidarity.

Since early August, the pictures have been obtainable on-line at pourgaza.art. In simply two weeks, greater than 140 prints had already been acquired, elevating over €15,000. The funds are being directed to 5 humanitarian and cultural organizations chosen for his or her direct presence and dedication on the bottom: the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, The Wings of Healing, Doctors Without Borders, the Palestine Film Institute, and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. Online gross sales proceed all through the exhibition, enabling a broad public to participate on this collective effort.

The initiative extends past the presentation of works. At Les Chiroux, a documentary house gives guests sources to higher perceive the stakes of the battle and its penalties. The bookstore Livre aux trésors offers a curated number of books on Palestine all through the period of the present. Events additionally punctuate this system: on September 6 at 7:30 p.m., the documentary No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, and Yuval Abraham will likely be screened, adopted by a dialogue. On October 2 at 8 p.m., Lebanese singer Mayssa Jallad will current a film-concert of her undertaking Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels, revisiting the historical past of the Lebanese Civil War by way of music and picture.

At the identical time, the Galerie Satellite is presenting “Palestine: A Notebook Revisited,” a undertaking by documentary photographer and feminist activist Véronique Vercheval. She brings collectively photographs taken between 2002 and 2022 within the West Bank and Gaza, which now resonate as treasured archives. In her phrases, they’re “precious memories, witnesses of a world that risks disappearing.” The historic worth of those images, revamped twenty years within the occupied territories, takes on renewed pressure in mild of the present dramatic context.

By bringing collectively on the partitions of Les Chiroux this hundred photographs from various horizons, “For Gaza” reminds us that images is usually a widespread language to specific indignation and hope. “The civilian population in Gaza is suffering in an unbearable way,” the organizers state. The exhibition turns into a spot of quick reminiscence, but additionally an invite to behave concretely: to accumulate {a photograph} as a way to refuse to look away.

The exhibition “For Gaza” takes place from September 4 to October 4, 2025, at Les Chiroux in Liège. All images are on the market on the dedicated platform.