GAZA: The Chronicle of a Genocide

Photographs by Ali Jadallah, made in Gaza from 8 October 2023 to the present
Curated by Damir Šagolj
Exhibition design by Lejla Hodžić

Produced by the WARM Foundation, in partnership with Gallery 11/07/95 and the Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandy for War Correspondents

Presented as part of WARM Festival 2026
Venue: Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina Building, Sarajevo
July 2026

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GAZA
The Chronicle of a Genocide

Photographs by Ali Jadallah

This is the most comprehensive and detailed photographic report on genocide ever produced by a single photographer. Behind these doors are not just history-defining pictures, but human-race-defining pictures. They show, brutally and directly, just as those from the Holocaust did, what we are capable of as humans.

There comes a point when photographs stop being photographs. They become evidence, they become pain, powerful and sharp. They go on and on, driving ever deeper into an open wound, exactly as they should. Every layer reveals new pain, new humiliation, and horror, all screaming at us from every single frame of this most extraordinary photographic chronicle of a genocide.

Ali Jadallah is a brilliant photographer. These images are important not only because of what they show, but because of how they show it. Their visual power is overwhelming. Their beauty does not soften the horror. It makes it even harder to bear, to ignore.

Just these pictures, even with no captions, together with the “never again” definition of genocide we adopted in 1948, should be enough to understand exactly what is happening in Gaza.

Why is that so difficult?

Because it would require a reaction from every single one of us, individually and collectively. We do not want that because it is uncomfortable and, probably, costly. We would rather hope that “this will pass,” so we can return to the “soft Gaza” we have all learned to live with.

Ali Jadallah has lived through hell and remains at its very heart, with both his life and his work. His photographic report from Gaza is breathtaking and of the utmost importance. Once seen, no one can ever again say: “But we didn’t know.”

Damir Šagolj