ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
By this point, so many photojournalists have made the trek to the West Bank and Gaza Strip that the Plight of the Palestinians has become a predictable subgenre, complete with its own lame clichés: young men throwing rocks, protesters waving flags and screaming, children walking through rubble, checkpoints, rocket explosions, Israeli Defense Forces storm troopers busting down doors, and, of course, the wall. It’s one of those instances of something being so well documented that one has to question whether we have become desensitized to the severity of the situation due to oversaturation.
Linda Forsell’s new book, Life’s a Blast, avoids these well-worn tropes.
