GAZA: The Chronicle of a Genocide

Photographs by Ali Jadallah, made in Gaza from 8 October 2023 to the present for the Anadolu Agency
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

This is the most comprehensive and detailed photographic report on genocide ever produced by a single photographer. This exhibition is not just a collection of photographs that will define history. These are images that will permanently define humanity. Brutally and without mediation, just as the photographs of the Holocaust or killing fields of Phnom Penh once did, they show us what we, as human beings, are capable of.

There comes a moment when photographs stop being photographs. They become evidence. And then they become pain. Powerful, sharp and relentless. One after another, they drive ever deeper into an open wound, exactly as they should. Each new layer reveals new pain, new humiliation and new horror, screaming at us from every single frame of this photographic chronicle of a genocide.

Ali Jadallah is an extraordinary photographer. His photographs matter not only because of what they show, but because of how they show it. Their visual power is almost unbearable, yet the beauty of his images does not soften the horror. Quite the opposite. It makes it even harder to endure, even harder to ignore.

These photographs alone, even without captions or any additional information, together with the definition of genocide adopted by the world in 1948 under the promise of “Never Again”, should be enough to understand, with complete clarity, what is happening in Gaza today.

Why is that so difficult?

Because it would require a response from every one of us, both individually and collectively. And we do not want that, because it is uncomfortable and, most likely, costly. It is much easier to hope that “this too shall pass,” so that we can return to the “soft Gaza” we have all learned to live with.

Ali Jadallah has lived through hell and still remains at its very centre, with both his life and his work. His photographic report from Gaza is breathtaking and an invaluable historical document. If nothing else, after seeing it, no one will ever again be able to say: “But we didn’t know.”

Damir Šagolj