On November 1st 2023, our friend and colleague Majd Arandas was killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp. In his honor, we hosted an earlier Palestinian print sale, raising nearly $80,000.00 that went directly to Palestinian image-makers (click here to learn more).

Majd said: "I wish for a day when life and beauty return to Gaza, and for peace to spread throughout all of Palestinian land. I wish to photograph beautiful things... cities in the West Bank, cities in Occupied Palestine, and visit many cities across the world and capture beautiful things there — beauty that the citizens in Gaza are kept from witnessing because of the Israeli occupation, whether it's in their own homeland or elsewhere in the world!"

In 2025, we hosted a solo exhibition of Majd's work, titled 'A Memorial in Fragments' (click here to learn more). This exhibition considers the afterlife of images, how they function not just as present-day records but as future testimony. The show presents an extensive body of work by Majd Arandas, by presenting images retrieved by his brother after his tragic death, this exhibition invites viewers to interrogate the politics of image-making, and the shifting role of photography as tools of evidence.