Debut solo exhibition lined up

Her series, Quiet Transfer, won last year’s competition and is now included in its entirety in the new show, alongside a new series of images, In Situ, shot in India.

Quiet Transfer explores the Arab-Israeli conflict through the Israeli policy of house demolition and settlement expansion in East Jerusalem. It consists of landscapes and still life images of fragments of Palestinian houses demolished between 2007 and 2009.

Shot in the style of archaeological or museum artefacts, lit with inky blackness and high contrast, the still life images resonate with religious and political importance.

Alongside these images sit larger landscapes of the Old City in Jerusalem, largely inspired by 19th century Orientalist paintings and photographs. The images are a combination of research into the present and an attempt to understand how the colonial interest in the Middle East, and particularly the British involvement in Palestine, shaped a certain image of the city and its landscape.

In Situ presents photographs of the Prag Mahal in Bhugi, the former home of the local ruler in the 19th century, designed by Colonel Wilkins of the Royal Engineers in a fusion of Gothic and neo-classical styles.

Now functioning as a museum and handed down through the same family, the palace – partly destroyed by the 2001 earthquake – is marketed as the main tourist attraction in the city yet lies neglected and forlorn, under siege by pigeons and other creatures.