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Hussein Musa in his orchard in Wadi Zawatin. In my portraits I wanted the white backdrop to serve the opposite purpose: to place the individuals standing before it into high relief, richly framed by the place that sustains them and that they nurture. This became my attempt to experiment with perceptions that blur the definitions between “natural” and “constructed,” and to toy with ethnographic photography and my role as foreigner, researcher and photographer.