Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

The Buildings of U.N.R.W.A., March, 2012

Artist Gloriann Liu (American, born 1953)

Date2012; print 2016

Made/manufacturedLebanon

MediumDigital C-print

DimensionsImage: 19 × 29 in. (48.3 × 73.7 cm)
Frame: 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.4 cm)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund, with additional support provided by Ann Johns in honor of her husband David Johns

Object number2018.22

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PHOTOGRAPHY

DescriptionShatila and Burj el-Barajneh are long-term refugee camps in Lebanon. The streets are more like alleyways, and snarled electrical wires and water pipes are draped overhead. There are several electrocution deaths annually from the overhead wires. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) set up Shatila in 1949 for Palestinian refugees who had been dispalced from their homeland. Their children still hope that they will someday return to Palestine.