Your name
Amer Nasser
Place of birth
Gaza, Palestine
Place where you live now
Marseille, France
3 words to describe you
Resilient, visionary, authentic
Why do you take pictures?
I take pictures to document what surrounds me before it disappears. Photography allows me to keep a trace of moments and places that may not exist tomorrow.
Who are your influences?
My main influences are the people in Gaza who kept living, creating, and helping each other under impossible conditions. They are not famous artists or filmmakers, but ordinary people who became real heroes in my life. Their resilience and small daily acts of courage shaped how I see cinema and storytelling
What determines the subject matter you choose?
The subject usually comes from personal experience or from something I witnessed directly. I don’t invent stories from outside, I focus on what I know, what I lived, or what happened around me. If it feels urgent and necessary to record, then it becomes the subject.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I hope my work makes people pay attention to details of life that are often ignored, especially in places like Gaza. If someone can see the humanity behind the images, and not just the destruction, then the art has done its job. And if it can also remind people of the urgent need to stop the war there, that would be the most important impact.
Is there anything you want to add?
Yes. I just want to say that the war in Gaza must stop. People there need peace and a chance to live

Gaza. Signal of Life
Project statement

In Gaza, survival is forged by any means necessary. In every corner of the street, in every part of the city, alternatives, innovations, and strategies emerge to subsist. They show how one continues their journey after surviving a missile, a shell, or a bombing. Everything has disappeared. Or almost everything. It's to this 'almost' that I cling viscerally. I try to explore these places in search of this 'almost'. Each image bears witness to the efforts to (sur)vive, to continue one's path, to invent alternative means of escaping death. Each image becomes an act of resistance.

Navigating between life and death, in a context where daily life lacks everything, I send my images by placing my phone on a long iron stick that I raise as high as possible to find a connection signal and share these images of signals of life with the outside world. Hoping that one day, someone might decipher the mystery of this 'almost life', grasp the spirit of (sur)vival that inhabited it. This series - captured since October 2023 in the heart of the war in northern Gaza - reveals this quest for a signal of life: between memories of places, means of survival, and the spirit of resilience.

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