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: There was a terrible shortage of classrooms in Palestinian Schools in East Jerusalem, and usually the girl students were given less space than the boys. This photograph represents the cramped environment these students are forced to learn in. Remarkably, despite the cramped conditions there was a strong sense of pride among the students. They clearly believed in being educated and took their work as seriously as any elementary school student would.   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