Solidarity in the Streets: Hayf Photography Fine Art Prints

Print 1: “From Turtle Island to Palestine”

My compass.

Indigenous women leading our way.

Mothers, matriarchs, aunties, and grandmothers - the ones who show up for their kin, demanding justice for our children and sovereignty for our land. 

Feet on the ground, fist in the air, I listen. 

Print 2: “All Our Children”

My compass.

My children.

All our children.

“We’ll go to the rallies until Palestine is free, right Poppy?” “Yes, habibi. We will. For Big Jedo and for all the kids in Ghazzah.”

Print 3: “Learning from our elders”

My compass.

My late عمو (ammo/uncle) Samih Khalil Farsoun - born in فلسطين (Haifa, Palestine) in 1937. Ammo’s life’s work was shaped by our family’s experiences of forced displacement, exile, and racism. Samih taught me that words matter - they hold power, evoke feelings, and ignite action.

This piece is an invitation to learn, and perhaps unlearn.

Ammo Samih taught me that إنتفاضة (intifada) translates to “shake the dust off” and was first used in a political context in 1952 to describe the Iraqi uprising. And then, إنتفاضة became more widely used in 1987 by Palestinians to describe the first grass-roots Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation, led mainly by women and students.

Calling for an intifada is not an incitement for violence against Jewish people.

It is a call for Palestinian sovereignty and for continuing local and global resistance movements against the oppression of my people.