Tsawwar... Adam Rouhana

"I was walking around Bethlehem with my camera, as I tend to do, and met this group of boys who were playing in the land. They were very playful and just by talking to them, we kind of became friends. One boy went to pick up his watermelon from the ground. He split it open and started eating it. It was like a playful performance but natural all at the same time.

It’s often argued that photography is a kind of fiction — if imagination is to fiction what belief is to the truth, then photography is the act of taking fiction closer to the side of sheer fact. Art is a reflection of the world, and the camera is ostensibly a recorder of time and space, and that’s probably why the images we see become the truth.”

Adam Rouhana is a Palestinian-American photographer currently based between Jerusalem and London. You can explore more of his work on instagram @adam.rouhana