Rasha Al Jundi is a Palestinian documentary photographer and visual storyteller. She grew up in the UAE, after which she moved to Lebanon to pursue higher education. Her work generally follows a social documentary pathway and focuses on colonial links to social, political and cultural themes. In 2022, Rasha graduated from the Documentary and Visual Photojournalism program at the International Center for Photography (ICP), New York, and won several grants including the inaugural Tom Stoddart award from the Ian Parry grant (2022) and the Revolutionary Storyteller Grants from Photographers Without Borders (2024). She has designed and produced several zines and has been collaborating with other multidisciplinary artists for different projects. Her work has been exhibited in Amman, Beirut, Berlin, Jerusalem, London, New York and Tokyo.
Michael Jabareen (1993) is an award winning Palestinian visual artist and performer, based between Jenin, Palestine, and Berlin, Germany. He was born in the city of Nazareth and raised in Jenin. In 2002, his family got completely separated by the zionist annexation wall. He completed his Bachelors in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University (2016) and a Masters in Visual and Experience Design from the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin (2021). His work utilises the interconnection between visual and performative arts to illustrate social and political justice themes. He works with a wide range of expressive methods, such as illustration, comics, graphic design, animation, multimedia productions, theatre, and spatial design.

Cold Water: The memory of the past, the coincidence of the present and the desire for the future



How right is it for time to determine our destinies as Palestinians and force us to surrender to it as a given? Time is stripped of its power in the face of Palestinian persistence and tenacity, wherever he/she is and at all times. If he/she goes against every expected current, then the Palestinian is free even if one thinks he/she is restricted. Cold Water is a multidisciplinary visual project that combines photography and illustration, where the image and graphics intertwine, searching for the common thread between two stories written by two exiles, between exile outside the homeland and exile within it. Two timelines that were thought to be unconnected. Yet the memory of the past, the coincidence of the present and the desire for the future had another opinion. The project tells the story of two Palestinian artists: Rasha Al Jundi through the lens of her camera and Michael Jabareen through his drawings and artistic expression, until their meeting in 2022. Their individual stories pass through specific events that are stuck in their memories from the beginnings until the present day and beyond, which without intention shaped each of them as a person, a narrative and a destiny, so that their meeting would be a coincidence written with their own pens. In exile, time finds itself facing a crisis of identity and definition, as its sin splits and multi- plies with the number of exiles; those from whom their will was robbed by time, only to find itself in front of thousands of pens writing their own times as they wished. - By - Rasha Al Jundi & Michael Jabareen