Amal Abu Hanna is a Palestinian photographer based in Berlin.
Amal’s photography is an act of preservation, a means of documenting what might otherwise be forgotten. It records what lingers in the periphery—walls, bedrooms, windows, blankets—spaces heavy with memory, shaped by touch, time, and disappearance. Her camera does not just capture; it intervenes, holding onto what history erases, what politics renders disposable.
But these images are not just documents—they feel. The sentiment is not nostalgic but insistent. A blanket is not just fabric; it carries warmth, protection, the weight of those who have held it. A window is not just glass; it is a threshold, a barrier, a way of seeing and being seen. The domestic is personal, and the personal is always political.
Amal’s work does not separate emotion from resistance. It understands that survival is not just about endurance but about holding onto what makes life meaningful. By framing the fleeting, the fragile, and the familiar, these photographs do not simply assert presence—they demand recognition.