Books

2024 (forthcoming). The Jewelers of the Ummah - Algerian Letters, Verso.

2023. La résistance des bijoux – contre les géographies coloniales, Rot-Bo-Krik.

2023 (forthcoming). Collaboration – Potential History of Photography, Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford & Laura Wexler, Thames & Hudson.

2019 Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism, Verso Books.

2016. The Resolution of The Suspectin collaboration with photographer: Miki Kratsman, Radius Books/Peabody Museum Press.

2017. Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography, Leuven University Press and Cornell University Press (in Hebrew, 2016, Resling publishing House).

2012. The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, with Adi Ophir, Stanford University Press (revised English translation from Hebrew of: This Regime which is not One, Resling, 2008).

2012. Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography, Verso (English translation of Hebrew, Resling, 2010).

2011. From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press (English translation of Constituent Violence 1947-1950, Resling 2009).

2008. The Civil Contract of Photography. Zone Books (English translation from Hebrew, Resling 2007).

2015. Historia Poetncial Y Otros Ensayos, t-e-eoria (a collection of essays in Spanish translation).

2008. Act of State – Photographed History of the Occupation 1967-2007, Etgar (in Hebrew, in Italian, Bruno Mondadori, 2008).

2005. Once Upon A Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin. Bar Ilan University Press (in Hebrew).

2002. Bad Days, Adi Ophir, Resling (in Hebrew).

2001. Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, MIT Press (Infinity Award, ICP, 2002).

2000. How Does it Look to You? Babel Publishers (in Hebrew).

1999. TRAining for ART: Critique of Museal Economy, Hakibutz Hamehuhad Publishing House and The Porter Institute, Tel Aviv University (in Hebrew).

VISUAL ESSAYS, ANTI-IMPERIAL CURATORIAL AND VISUAL WORK DISPLAYED:

PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES:

2008-2022 – Enough! The Strike Must Go On (I & II)
This two-part project weave together two sets of 96 images from the decade following the end of World War II. The first set consists of plates from an exhibition kit prepared by UNESCO in 1949, conceived as a visual illustration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) drafted by the UN. The second set consists of photographs from different parts of the world, in which people claim their rights in different languages and grammar, and articulate their aspirations, that differ from those imposed by the UDHR, drafted by the Allies. For the people in these photos, WWII should have ended with non-imperial political formations and imaginations, substantial processes of decolonization, redress, equal rights, and equal access to education and housing. Together they assert their power as workers and co-citizens and refuse to be reduced to obedient subjects, hungry mouths to be fed and able hands to be employed for the profit of others.


2000-2007 – Act of State 1967-2007
The composed archive includes 754 annotated photos. The research was conducted at 50 photographers’ studios and focused mainly on images from the West Bank and Gaza. The archive was shown at a dozen venues in Tel Aviv, Europe and South Africa, and was published in Hebrew and Italian (Atto di Stato - Palestina-Israele, 1967-2007 Storia fotografica dell'occupazione, Bruno Mondadori Publishing House 2008). The archive is now part of the Centre Pompidou collections.

2007-2009 – Constituent Violence, Palestine, 1947-1950
The composed archive includes 214 annotated photos. The research was conducted in Israeli archives and focused on the four formative years of the constitution of the state of Israel. The archive was shown in Tel Aviv and London, and was published in Hebrew and English (From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press, 2011).

2022 The Natural History of Rape, Berlin Biennale

2020 Errata, HKW, Berlin.

2020 Act of State - 1967-2007, Arquivo Fotográfico,
Lisbon

2019 Errata (a retrospective of eight archival projects), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (co-curated with Carles Guerra)

2018 Presentation of the (revised) 5th edition of the Collaboration: A Potential History of
Photography, (curated collaboratively with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford & Laura Wexler), Slought, Philadelphia

2018 Potential History of Photography: Co-Lab-Photo-Box, 3rd and revised edition
(in collaboration with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Professor Leigh Raiford, Professor Laura Wexler), Reyerson Image Centre, Toronto.

2017 Time Machine, Stereoscopic Views, Palestine 1900 (co-curated with Issam Nassar), Pembroke Hall, Brown University

2017 Potential History of Photography: Co-Lab-Photo-Box, 2nd edition (in collaboration with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Professor Leigh Raiford, Professor Laura Wexler), The Pembroke Hall

2016 Act of State Archive, in Cher.es Ami.es, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2016 Enough! The Natural Violence of New World Order, in F/Stop photography
festival, Leipzig, Pembroke Hall, Brown University


FILMS (SCRIPT WRITER AND DIRECTOR):


2022 The World Like a Jewel in the Hand – Unlearning Imperial Plunder II (58 min,
script and director: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay; cameramen: Bona Manga Bell, R.I.P., Adel Ben Bella; editor Juna Suleiman; Voice and music: Nadia Ammour; producer: Eyal Vexler; Sound editor: Ziad Fayed; Graphics: Haitham Hadad)

2019 Un-Documented - Unlearning Imperial Plunder (38 min)
(script and director: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, voice and music composed and performed by Edoheart, Awori & Moor Mother, camera: Bona Manga Bell, production: Eyal Vexler, editing & graphics: Claudia Yile, sound editor: Ziad Fayed)

2012 Civil Alliance, Palestine 47-48 (52 min)

2005 At Nightfall (17 min)

2004 I Also Dwell Among Our Own People – Conversations with Azmi Bishara

2004 The Food Chain (17 min).

2002. Chaira's Smile (2 min).

2000 The Angel of History (70 min).

1995 A Sign from Heaven: a Film in 22 Letters Arranged Alphabetically (55 min)

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