Scott Caruth - Molatham mining

Scott Caruth - Molatham miningTrolley Books 2019 Scott Caruths first photographic monologue Molatham is an Arabic verb which translates literally as to cover ones face, but is used vernacularly in Palestine to describe anybody resisting the Israeli occupation. In this context, the verb locates the pivotal role played by the medium of photography in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, whereby in order to resist it, Palestinians must remain anonymous. Taking this as his

Terminus captures a tension between the observation of the specific and the insistence of the abstract

24 x 31 cm

Inevitable and unruly

Their bible is illustrated with images that are related to the original text

using technicolour soft pastel to imbue his portraits

which will be released in cinemas in December 2024

and hate flourishes in a virtual world that seems to grow even as the physical one shrinks

his goal was to shine a light not only on people who are often ignored in day to day society

and the coastal locations where slave ships docked

Sna Jtz-ibajom (The House of the Writers)

And he should know: those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday

whose enigmas seem to emerge independently of the deliberate hands that built it