Dor Guez

Samira, 2020

Dor Guez’s Samira, 2020 is a portrait of his grandmother taken on her wedding day in Lydda in 1949, shortly after the 1948 Palestinian exodus (al-Nakba). The image, part of Guez’s ongoing series of “scanograms,” bears the marks of time—creases, fading, and surface wear—emphasizing the photograph’s physical history as much as its subject. By emphasizing these traces, Guez transforms a personal family photograph into a layered meditation on memory, displacement, and survival. Samira, 2020 stands as both an intimate tribute and a powerful reflection on how private archives preserve histories often excluded from official narratives.