Homeland Lost presents portraits of stateless Palestinians living in refugee camps, Palestinian exiles settled in Jordan and Lebanon and Palestinians living in the Israeli state. Gignoux provides a portrait of Palestinian refugees, displaced conditions or locations of exile. In this sense his work deconstructs the stereotypes created by the western media of exiled Palestinians as either extremists or victims, instead his work shows them as individuals trying to build a life for themselves in and extremely harsh reality they face. The subjects reflect the diversity of the diaspora population in gender, class, age and religion and the photographs as a group portray a society in exile.

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