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Here's a selection of photographs and brief bios of five Jewish and Arab girls (pictured above with the Leila at the opening of the exhibition in Jaffa) who took part in the project.

 

Mor Levy
 

I am from Bat Yam and I'm 16. I am Jewish. I have been doing photography all my life and I love it - because you can express your feelings without words. I am also a musician. I have a band called Muzot, which is named after my school Muzot in Jaffa.
 
I want to show life in my photography. One of my themes is 'broken and beautiful', which is an exploration of how something that is broken can be the most beautiful thing in the world.
 
In this exhibition I look at homelessness because the lives of homeless people are broken and they want to tell us something that we can't understand just by looking at them. Everyone has garbage and everyone wants to hide. I want to show it. I don't want to wear a mask: I want to show the real face of the world.
 
mira.jpg 'Mira'

This woman has been in Israel for 60 years. She came from Iraq and she sells good luck charms - hamsa - to protect against the evil eye. She buys them for two shekels and sells them for three.
It was fun and sad to photograph Mia - because I knew one more interesting person. It was sad because she is homeless - sitting here on this blue plastic thing and selling things. The shop mannequins in the background have a perfect body and Mira is very old and sick - she told us. It's the contrast between perfection that is not real - this is the mask - and reality.

 








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'Do you feel perfect?'

I went up to these men to ask if I could take their picture but they had been drinking. They smelled like vodka. They are not strong people - they are sitting on a bench, they prefer to drink vodka and smoke than doing something with their life. A lot of things go on in their live and they want to cry - not to be here.
The boy is going past with expensive clothes and shopping and he looks at them and you can see in his eyes. It's like he wants to see them and he doesn't want to do it. He wants to look over there and not see.

 

 


 

 

 

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'Your way'

She is a survivor because she did it her way - she made her choices. She was happy because she did it her way and you can see in her eyes that she's a happy person - she is not wearing a mask.
She told us that she could see the future. One day she woke up and a voice in her head told her not to drive. She ignored it and then had an accident. After that she decided not to ignore the voice inside - and help other people do the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 



 
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