A House Without a Roof

A House Without a Roof is a photographic book and installation of images and texts which looks at the deeply intertwined histories of violence and displacement connecting Europe to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Between 2011 - 2016, I photographed and conducted fieldwork in the Baltic States, Britain, Germany, Israel, and the Occupied West Bank. I photographed varying landscapes of contention spanning from Jericho to Nuremberg, to the house in Siauliai, Lithuania where my grandmother was born before the war. Photographing and working in archives, I collected imagery and ephemera whose incompleteness, irony and poetic sensibilities point to ruptures in history, and occupy a place where the lines between myth and fact become difficult to distinguish. Framed by the relationship between my grandfather (a Jewish-Lithuanian survivor of Dachau), my dad (who briefly lived on an Israeli kibbutz in the 1970s) and me, A House Without a Roof wrestles with contradictory narratives and poin