“Young Perspectives: Palestine in Focus” features some fifty photographs taken by school pupils from across the West Bank. The images capture details of everyday life in their local communities and show how the young photographers relate to the places around them, revealing the Palestine they see and experience.

The selection reflects a broad geographical spread across the West Bank, from al-Jiftlik and the northern Jordan Valley to Battir, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Birzeit, and Nablus, as well as several Bedouin communities. Other locations include Mazari an-Nubani, Beit Reema, al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, Wadi Fukin, al-Fawwar, Deir Daif, Bani Naim, Mirka, Umm Lasafa, and Salfit.

Glimpses of Palestine’s beauty: green mountains we no longer walk or climb as we once did, picking akkoub and sage. These unforced images bear witness to how growing constraints on movement and access are reshaping our relationship with the landscape, with places once woven into everyday life becoming increasingly difficult to reach.

Lingering on seemingly incidental details and scenes, these images carry traces of place, memory, and everyday life. They record what caught the children’s attention and what they wanted to hold on to, inviting us to see Palestine through their eyes and notice what might otherwise pass us by. The exhibition also prompts reflection on our relationship to place and on what photography can preserve of memory and presence.

“Young Perspectives: Palestine in Focus” invites us to keep looking at and photographing Palestine, to see it anew: the green sweep of its grass, the red flare of its wild anemones, and the fresh mountain streams winding through the valleys.

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the Palestinian Musueum.