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One Month in Ramallah - Al Quds/Guardian, 2010
Helen De Main
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One month in Ramallah uses imagery taken from the Palestinian and British newspapers Al Quds and the Guardian. For the duration of March 2009 the artist collected each edition of Al Quds whilst on residency in Ramallah, and someone else in the UK collected the Guardian on her behalf. Images were selected from each issue of both papers on an instinctive basis, for their formal qualities as photographs, and a personal interest in the story being presented and printing plates made from each of them.
The 2 large scale images have been assembled using all of the individual plates from each of the papers, giving an overview of news from one month. Presented altogether in this way, direct comparisons can be made to the types of images, content of news and media rhetoric that each of these institutions represent. Despite a broad spectrum of stories being covered, from different cultural perspectives, parallels begin to appear between the images, both formally and conceptually. The international weighting of images depicted in the Guardian, comparative to the more local focus of Al Quds, generates ideas of the effects of media image on the population viewing them, and the role of reporting can play in times of national struggle.
These dense black and white images are off set by minimal monochrome prints made up of geometric shapes. These draw from the graphic qualities of each of the papers, creating a pause in the work and space for contemplation.
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Size : 80 x 120cm
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Material : Diptych photo polymer prints.
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Location : Alhoash Gallery
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Date of work : 2010
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