Photographer: Joel Sanders, Seattle Image Title: Palestinian Schools #2 Category: Indigenous Cultures   Technical Details: Minolta 35mm SLR camera, Kodak 400 film, Fuji Frontier Print Location: East Jerusalem, Israel, 2000 Description: The reporter and I were investigating the conditions of Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem, which is under Israeli control. Our project consisted of visiting the schools, talking to administrators, and viewing the facilities. In general the students became very excited when they saw me with my camera and would not settle down to allow me to photograph. But the child in the foreground of this image was different. He seemed to have a mature understanding of the terrible physical condition of his classroom, and found nothing amusing about it.   Freelance photographer Joel Sanders, a Seattle native and graduate of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., has lived, traveled and photographed in Israel and the Palestinian territories and is currently based in Seattle.   These pictures, taken in early 2000, are from a photo essay on schools in East and West Jerusalem. The United Nations and the Palestinian Human Rights Monitor Group published selections from this project.   Other projects include: The Barber Shop Series, an exploration of Jerusalem's ethnic and cultural diversity through neighborhood barber shops; The People of Downtown, a look at the financial district of downtown Los Angeles; and Rafah 2003, a photo essay on the Rafah refugee camp, Gaza.   Joel Sanders Phone: 206-790-5674 E-mail: joelbsanders@earthlink.net     Return to 2003 Galleries | Return to 2003 Indigenous Cultures Gallery     Home | Contact Us | Copyright