{"id":268530,"date":"2025-11-07T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268530\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:49:07","slug":"the-tender-poignant-and-powerful-moments-captured-in-photo-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268530\/","title":{"rendered":"The tender, poignant and powerful moments captured in photo festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In occupied East Jerusalem\u2019s Silwan neighbourhood, Najah al-Rajabi tenderly cares for her grandson Awad, who has lived in a coma for six years. The family has been told that they either have to vacate their home by November 14 or be forced to leave by Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old widow worries about who will look after Awad when she dies, and the looming threat of homelessness for the 18 family members in the home terrifies her. His bedroom is covered in yellow and orange flowers, part of a neighbourhood project by pro-Palestinian artists called \u201cI witness Silwan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Najah al-Rajabi and her grandson Awad Nasser al-Rajabi in the family home in the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b3853743f1c7b142b95a6a1d2b5ed91fe012b7de.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Najah al-Rajabi and her grandson Awad Nasser al-Rajabi in the family home in the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem.Credit: Kate Geraghty<\/p>\n<p>The stories of the al-Rajabi family and Silwan will live on, immortalised by the Herald\u2019s chief photographer, Kate Geraghty, who has been recognised in Australia\u2019s largest photography festival awards, Head On, for her portrait of the intimate moment between the grandmother and grandson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honour to be a finalist among such talented photographers,\u201d Geraghty said. \u201cThe main thing for me is that &#8230; it\u2019s another opportunity for their story to be told.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family, by allowing Awad to be photographed for the first time, was not just to highlight their family\u2019s plight, but the plight of all Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud that the Herald continues to tell stories like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"All eyes on East Jerusalem: Murals on the houses of the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood seek to draw attention to the eviction of Palestinians from their homes.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cf6a43ad0ebbccca5e375ae90ce1c31149f0fdad.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All eyes on East Jerusalem: Murals on the houses of the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood seek to draw attention to the eviction of Palestinians from their homes.Credit: Kate Geraghty<\/p>\n<p>The Head On Photo Festival begins on Friday with the award ceremony, where Geraghty is nominated in the prestigious portraiture category.<\/p>\n<p>Held throughout November, the festival showcases a range of independently selected images by 700 photographers from around the world, in 110 free exhibitions across Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In occupied East Jerusalem\u2019s Silwan neighbourhood, Najah al-Rajabi tenderly cares for her grandson Awad, who has lived in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-268530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}