In 2010, the New York-based photographer Rosalind Solomon travelled with eleven other acclaimed photographers to Israel and the West Bank to participate in Frédéric Brenner’s collective project “This Place.” By asking each photographer to complete an independent series in the region, “This Place” was intended to “help us grasp the unbearable complexity of this place and its voices,” Brenner writes on the project’s Web site.
Solomon, who is eighty-four years old, was interested in the religious diversity of the region, and she photographed Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Her days were guided by circumstance, and she often spent hours with her subjects. “I like to get emotionally connected when I photograph people,” Solomon said in a recent conversation with Charlotte Cotton, the curator of an upcoming exhibition of the group’s work. “If I can’t get to that stage, it isn’t an interesting picture to me.”
A book of Solomon’s photographs from the project, entitled “Them,” was published this summer by MACK and will be exhibited at the NY Art Book Fair, which opens at MOMA PS1 this Thursday.
All photographs by Rosalind Solomon / Mack
