The Resolution of the Suspect
Miki Kratsman
2016
Miki Kratsman & Ariella Azoulay
Miki Kratsman (born 1959) has worked as a photojournalist in the Palestinian Occupied Territories for over three decades. Originally created in the context of daily news, his photographs look at both "wanted men"--individuals sought by the Israeli state--and the everyman and everywoman on the street who, by virtue of being Palestinian in a particular time and place, can be seen as a "suspect." Kratsman has also provoked long-term interaction around the images on social media, creating a Facebook page on which viewers are invited to identify the individuals portrayed and comment on their "fate." This complex project is chronicled in this book in more than 300 images that powerfully implicate the viewer. A text by Ariella Azoulay explores the ways in which the shadow of death is an actual threat that hovers over Kratsman's subjects
- Design: Radius Books
- Editing: Joan Kathryn O'Donnell
- Texts: Ariella Azoulay
- Language editing: Laura Addison
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 213
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 16X18
- Printing: Editorale Bortolazzi Stei
- Binding: Editorale Bortolazzi Stei
- Type of printing: Ofsset
- Publication: Radius Books, Peabody Museum Press
- Place of publication: Italy
- Supported by: Harvard College, Peabody Museum Press
- ISBN: 978-1-934435-77-9
Professor Miki Kratsman (born 1959) is an Israeli photographer, artist and human rights activist. He worked as a photojournalist for the Haaretz, Hadashot and Ha’Ir newspapers. He is an associate professor in the Department of Photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and winner of the EMET prize, 2011 and the Ministry of Education and Culture prize, 2001. In 2015, the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York named him one of the 50 most socially committed photographers in the history of photography. Kratsman is one of the founders and currently the chair of the board of directors of the “Breaking the Silence” organization. In 2020, his book Oved arkhiyon [Archive Worker] was published by Kibbutz Hameuchad. The following year, his joint project with artist Shabtai Pinchevsky, Anti-Mapping, was presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
