Benedikt Partenheimer: Expiration
Bir Nabala, Palestine, 2010
Quiet work betrays a bold personality: when complaining on Facebook about a photographer who didn’t follow up on my offer of publication, Berlin-based Benedikt Partenheimer cheerily suggested I publish his work instead. After a look through the different series on his website, making an exception to my “no horses” rule, I was most taken by ‘Expiration’ for its cool, calm look at the West Bank city of Bir Nabala, once a commercial center but now sealed off from Jerusalem by the Wall.