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Palestine Music Space

Ramallah, Palestine

I want to say a few words about what you're looking at here, not because images need explaining, but because we live in a time when certain realities are made to seem controversial. Especially, in Germany. So let me name them plainly

I want to say a few words about what you're looking at here, not because images need explaining, but because we live in a time when certain realities are made to seem controversial.

In Ramallah there is a place called the Palestine Music Space. Young people go there to learn instruments, to form bands, to make and record their own music.

It was founded by Ahmed Eid, a musician and one of the most significant Palestinian artists of his generation, a man whose own work has always moved between belonging and resistance, between grief and an insistence on freedom.

With this space he has done what artists at their best do: he has made room for others. He teaches. He connects. He keeps the door open for whoever walks through it

The photographs and videos collected here come from my time spent with Ahmed, with the space, and with the young musicians growing up inside it. Many of them are very young. Some are only beginning to find out what their music might sound like.