"In Gaza, the camera lens does not merely capture a scene. It documents the human spirit resisting death. And for Gaza's photographers, every shutter click is an act of defiance. Each image carries risk, memory, and moral weight. They photograph through smoke and mourning, through hunger and destruction, and through the ache of watching the people they love become the subjects of their work."
"Samer Abo Samra, 27, is a freelance photographer. He took this photo on October 29, 2025, at 8:00 am outside the morgue at Gaza's Al-Shifa Medical Complex following a "massacre that occurred during the Israeli occupation's breach of the truce that killed about 100 civilians-mostly children and women." In the photo, a grieving father, Mahmoud Shakshak, bids farewell to his children-Sara and Fadi-who were just killed in an Israeli air strike. He was kissing Sara's foot when Abo Samra took the picture."
Photographers in Gaza document human spirit resisting death, photographing through smoke, mourning, hunger, destruction, and the ache of loved ones becoming subjects. Their images carry risk, memory, and moral weight. Photographs function as archives of loss and life, recording genocidal war while also revealing fragments of Gaza's dignity, defiance, and enduring love. Photographers recount specific scenes: a morgue image of a father bidding farewell to children killed in an air strike exemplifies personal grief and collective tragedy. Each shutter click becomes an act of defiance and testimony. They risk safety to preserve memory and to assert Gaza's humanity against erasure.
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