Book Launch: Frames of Annexation/ZONE6

06:30pm - 08:00pm, Thu 29 Aug 2024

Please join us in the Bookshop for the launch of the ZONE6 publication Frames of Annexation, an artist's book resulting from an installation at Peckham 24 in May.

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Book Launch: Frames of Annexation/ZONE6

6:30pm, Thu 29 Aug 2024

Please join us in the Bookshop for the launch of the ZONE6 publication Frames of Annexation, an artist's book resulting from an installation at Peckham 24 in May.

This event is part of our Past Programme

Frames of Annexation is the result of a collaboration between hundreds of people and countless cameras: phones, body-cams, dash cams, CCTV cameras. It is the product of years of co-resistance to the Israeli occupation, presenting visual documentation from Israelis who stand in solidarity with Palestinian pastoral communities living under military occupation. The footage is drawn from the archive of the Jordan Valley Activists, a group offering assistance to Palestinian shepherds, whilst documenting law violations and abuse of the local population by illegal outposts.

In May ZONE6 presented FOA as an interactive video/print installation at Peckham24.

This publication came into fruition thanks to an audience who bore witness, laying their eyes upon the crimes of the occupation, each selecting a print at a book fair, far away from the original crime scene. Across the weekend, 219 prints were made; the images have been sequenced - free from editorial bias - in the exact order they were collected.

FOA.001, the first book iteration of this project, is an informative 88 page document which following its launch will be free to view online as a PDF. The book features two essays.

“Far from the spectacle of war in Gaza, the slow violence of the occupation chimes on in the West Bank.”

 

ZONE6 is a London based publishing house, with a focus on the printing and production of narrative driven documentary photography. Often incorporating handmade elements, the books produced are often concerned with memory, the passing of time and how images have become intertwined in our concept of both past and present. ZONE6 was founded in 2020, all output is curated and edited by Johnny McMullan.