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The
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is proud to announce that Swedish
photographer and friend of PCHR Kent Klich was recently
awarded the first prize of the World Press Photo awards in the category
“General News Singles”. The winning image is a photograph of a destroyed
home in Gaza City, in the aftermath of the Israeli attacks on Gaza in December
2008 and January 2009.

 Kent
Klich’s prize-winning image “At-Tuffah, Northern Gaza”

Klich
worked on the “Gaza
Photoalbum” between 18 February and 8 March 2009, visiting dozens of
homes damaged in the Israeli attacks with the assistance of PCHR team. Deputy
Director of PCHR, Jaber Wishah, wrote the foreword to Kilch’s book, which was
published in Sweden by Journal and in the United States by Umbrage Editions.
The book was
named the “best book of 2009” by photographer Martin Parr in
Photo-Eye Magazine.

Klich
writes about his work in Gaza: “I arrived in the Gaza Strip the 18 of
February this year, just after Israel’s immediate actions of war had ceased and
people had begun to try to recreate some kind of everyday existence within the
broken wasteland. My task was to document the inside story, the private sphere
of the devastation, the ruined homes of families that had been fired upon. The
work was accomplished together with fact finders from the Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights / PCHR.”

More of
Kent Klich’s work can be found at www.kentklich.com.

The
“Gaza Photoalbum” Exhibition has been shown at the Umbrage Gallery in
New York and at the Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and will be exhibited in Phom
Penh, Cambodia in November 2010.