Preserving Gaza's Photographic History

Armenian photographer Kegham Djeghalian opened one of Gaza’s first photo studios in the late 1940s. Between 1945 and 1970 his camera recorded a city most people have never seen: busy streets, family portraits, the railway to Egypt, even a visit by Che Guevara.

The documentary meets Marwan Tarazi, whose family later ran the studio and who has saved part of the archive from boxes and plastic bags, and photographer Shareef Sarhan, who documents Gaza today and tries to show daily life rather than only destruction.

Preserving Gaza’s Photographic History is a film about memory and about Palestinians keeping their own image of Gaza alive under siege.