Mika Yassur

“Reconfiguring the Aerial: (In)visibility in the Naqab and Fazal Sheikh’s Desert Bloom”
BlackFlash Magazine (print)
Issue 41.1, May 2024

I examine the ways in which aerial photography can collapse land into a two dimensional surface. In contrast to military photos of the Negev in Palestine, I analyze the ways in which Fazal Sheikh’s contemporary aerial photographs work to situate and give dimension to the land and struggles it holds.

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