All images, text & design © Skip Schiel 1990 - 2024
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All images, text & design © Skip Schiel 1990 - 2024 |
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CURRENT, UPCOMING, & PREVIOUS SHOWS: The Ongoing and Relentless Nakba photographic exhibit May 2024 TO PURCHASE PRINTS OR RESERVE SLIDESHOWS TO SUBSCRIBE (Email Skip Schiel—me—with "Subscribe Photo-Movie list" in the subject line.) TO HELP FUND MY PROJECT ABOUT PALESTINIAN REFUGEES & GAZA, CLICK ON "DONATE" TO GO TO PAYPAL. THANK YOU. My exhibit about Palestinian refugees in the West Bank is ready for installation and publication. Can you suggest venues where I might inquire? I am also preparing materials for publications and print exhibit venues, especially about Gaza. Ideas and leads appreciated. Just write me here. Updated April 11, 2025 Through photography Through photography I love: daughters, friends, the earth. Through photography I am outraged: at injustice, pomposity, violence, deceit, ignorance, greed. Through photography: I am perverse, critical, analytic, emotive, radiant, clumsy, elegant, adventurous, irreverent, romantic. Through photography: I am a person of the world, of the cosmos. And I am a recluse, an isolate, a monk. For all this I am very grateful. I praise my photographic lineage—ancestors who have taught me, contemporaries who cooperate with me, and successors who might benefit from what I've attempted to do. I thank the great mystery, god, the higher power, the ground of being, the still small voice inside, my dearly beloved and indispensable muses, and the pulse of the universe for allowing me—perhaps—to be aligned with this force, rather than opposed to it. Photography is my main form of prayer—I pray outward to the beings, things, forces I photograph. I pray inward to my own center by sensing the light within. I pray to others by showing them my photos. I link with the light, both inward & outward. Photography fuses my many tendencies, it allows expression of my various urgencies. May these images better balance the plethora of main media images we constantly experience: catastrophe, despair, ruination, death. May they help broaden the palette of art to include hope, faith, fun, exhilaration, antics, joy, friendship, worship, love. In the midst of a troubled time, may they affirm the life force. —Skip Schiel, June 18, 2009 |
LATEST MOVIES (Updated January 29, 2025)
A tale of ritual and rally (Tashlich and Gaza and Lebanon)
I hear the voice of my great grandmother (Climate Defiance)
Dancing in the King Tide (Extinction Rebellion)
Putting Words to the Unspeakable (Gaza) Youtube Channel |
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