REVIEW
The human cost of occupation
Review by Van Rudd
7 March 2008
Live From Occupied Palestine
Exhibition by Kim Bullimore
CLASS bookshop
360 Victoria St, North Melbourne
Info 0430 397 074
Melbourne activist Kim Bullimore has recently returned to Melbourne from Palestine’s occupied West Bank as part of the International Women’s Peace Service.
She brought with her a large number of Palestinian anti-occupation posters, drawings by the children of the Jenin refugee camp and documentary photographs of her own, which feature in her Live from Occupied Palestine exhibition.
Bullimore has certainly succeeded in providing an in-depth, heartfelt, confronting and informative display of images from a nation currently under siege. For example, drawings by children from the Jenin refugee camp are particularly hard to ignore — large Israeli Defence Force tanks appear in all of them.
From documentary photographs of IDF rubber bullets to the symbolism of an uprooted olive tree bulldozed to make more illegal Israeli settlements, this exhibition is very much needed for Australian viewing.
It displays the Palestinian people, as though they were as close as your own neighbour, caught in a struggle of gigantic proportions. It also shows how much the mainstream, Western media omits from their so-called “balanced” reports.
