The James Gallery at the City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities is hosting an open call for contributions to a project called the Christian Palestinian Archive. The Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez, the son of a Jewish father and a Palestinian Christian mother, launched the archive in 2009 with a suitcase of photographs he found of his grandmother underneath her bed. Today it contains thousands of documents sourced from Christian Palestinians around the globe.
The open call coincides with an exhibition at the gallery (8 April-4 June) of Guez’s photographs, videos and digitally altered archival records that trace his grandmother’s life story, from her expulsion from Palestine in 1948 to her later life in Amman, Cairo, London and beyond. The gallery will be reviewing donations to the archive on select Thursdays in April and May. For those outside of New York, submissions can be sent to christianpalestinianarchive@gmail.com.
