THE OTHER IN PALESTINE

Can a gap in one's identity be filled? Can an identity ever be in focus and above all separate and exclusive? The other defines us while we define ourselves. Also we may try to define ourselves by trying to define the other. These images from the photographic travel journal of Matei Glass are mainly of Palestine and Palestinians. They are also somehow of Glass and about his need to identify and redefine a people about whom he learned little as he grew up. He was a child of Holocaust survivors whose support for Israel could not be other than unquestioning. In a sense, it is his need to fill in the blanks in his personal and collective memory that brought him to Palestine with his camera.