London: Talk and Exhibition on the Ruined Villages of Palestine

Documenting the Ruined Villages of Palestine

Homeland Lost, at the P21 Gallery in 21-27 Chalton Street London NW1 1JD, is an exhibition of works by award-winning documentary photographer Alan Gignoux and the journalist and photographer Ahmad al-Bazz.

The project juxtaposes portraits of Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 and their descendants with photographs of their former homes and villages inside Israel.

Created between 2004 and 2005 and first exhibited in 2006, this is the first time that works from Homeland Lost have been shown in the UK since their exhibition at the Barbican as part of the Palestine Film Festival in 2008.

Published in 2025, twenty years after the creation of Homeland Lost, Ahmad al-Bazz's The Erasure of Palestine is the culmination of a three-year journey to document what remains of the hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns depopulated and destroyed during the creation and expansion of Israel from 1948 to the present.

Alan Gignoux, Ahmad al-Bazz will be discussing their work with Milena, a member of SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies and an international human rights lawyer, next Tuesday, July 7, 6.30-8.30pm at the P21 Gallery. Reflecting on two decades of change, the discussion will consider what these landscapes reveal about history, identity, and the ongoing struggle against erasure.

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