Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez: ‘Anchor in the Landscape’ [Talk & book launch]

Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez discuss their latest book, Anchor in the Landscape, with activist Issa Ambro, architect and artist Dima Srouji, and Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. The conversation will be moderated by artist, writer, and lecturer David Birkin

Over the past eighteen months, photographers Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. This book brings together their studied, absorbing portraits of these trees, which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and increasingly destroyed.

Thursday 17 October
18:30 – 20:30

South London Gallery
65 Peckham Rd
London SE5 8UH

Free to attend. RSVP here

About The Anchor in the Landscape

The olive tree is a totem of Palestinian identity, culture, and resistance. It supports the livelihoods of more than 100,000 Palestinian families, is a centre of traditions and identities, and has long been a target of destruction and theft. Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by Israeli authorities and settlers. Over the past eighteen months, photographers Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. This book brings together their studied, absorbing portraits of these trees, which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and increasingly destroyed. Each portrait bears witness to the presence and resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship with the land.

Find out more here