In May 2018, Adrien Vautier, Photo-reporter, produced a series of photographs
in Jerusalem and the West Bank border. What emerges is a vision of two
Concurrent events: Palestinian protests against the opening
of an American embassy in the city on the one hand, and the commemoration of the day
of the "Nakba", the exodus of Palestinians in 1948, on the other hand. These
protests, which are taking place in the Palestinian territories, Gaza and
West Bank, then have a significant echo and this even in the various
Israeli communities. To the point that some citizens from the community
ultra-Orthodox Jewish people opposed to the decision of American President Donald
Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the country's capital, meet at
around the ceremony to show their support. The work presented here is
the personal interpretation of a media news story. It bears witness to the
complexity of a conflict and the way in which some Israeli citizens
feel held hostage by a colonial government policy. This series
of photographs is therefore not to be considered as a report, but rather
as a committed work, in which aesthetics reinforce the power of the
testimony.
