Can people living just a few meters apart inhabit worlds so divergent that they end up contradicting each other? And what happens when they meet? Between Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, a common saying echoes: «Jews and Arabs only meet at checkpoints». This reality crystallizes opposing and irreconcilable truths.
“The Toll” is a long-term ongoing project, initiated in 2022, that aims to create a new meeting point, far from the checkpoints, where “the other ” can be recognized in their shared humanity. By illustrating liminal spaces where what separates and what unites blend into one another, this selection of 15 photographs sheds light on the blind spots of a region under the looming threat of polarization, offering a space for collective reflection. Dedicated to the bridges that didn’t exist, to those we destroyed, and to those we will build, “The Toll” is not as much of a political project as a human one.
