APR 3 • BOOK LAUNCH – Landing by Maen Hammad
Storm is excited to host Landing book launch by photographer Maen Hammad and published by Huwawa books. Landing is a photobook blending photography, prose, and poetry by Maen Hammad, documenting the lives of Palestinian skateboarders in the occupied West Bank.
Their will be an informal q&a conversation between Maen, Roï Saade from Huwawa and Sam Sundos, artist and friend of Storm.
This book marks Huwawa's inaugural publication and reflects its mission to foster critical conversations from the Arab world.
Landing explores skateboarding as a powerful form of resistance to a headspace of violence amidst the layered realities of Israeli settler-colonial domination.
Captured between 2015 and 2022, Maen Hammad's photographs depict the ephemeral moments of purposeful escape and the indomitable pursuit of freedom brought through a small collective of Palestinian skaters.
The book integrates these visuals with 22 critical essays, poems, and interviews. In collaboration with designer Roï Saade, the book is designed as a portal to the Palestinian skate scene, illustrating the alternative headspace crafted against a backdrop of violence and erasure.
Maen is a documentary photographer and writer. He considers himself a dedicated creative, always encouraged to explore the imaginative and to play around with the mundane. Maen has been documenting the Palestinian skateboard scene for the last eight years and engages in reciprocal nourishment with this community. He was born in Palestine, raised in the American suburbs of Michigan, and is currently based in Ramallah. Besides Maen’s work in documentary photography, he is also a human rights researcher and campaigner.
Huwawa Books is an artist-led publishing house. We envision the photobook as a living archive of ideas and conversations, and foreground anti-colonial and cultural counternarratives from the Middle East and North Africa. Our publishing is a rendering of world-making—a space of resistance against othering.
230 x 280 mm
214 pages - 5 gatefolds
103 photographs
Softcover
Section-sewn exposed spine
Photo & Text: Maen Hammad
Edit & Design: Roï Saade
Language: English
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THURSDAY APRIL 3
8PM
Limited seated capacity
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