Kent Klich

All invalids (invalidu rozn´) are not equal… At the head of the line stand the all-important invalids of the Second World War. Behind them we find the invalids of military conflict who have similar entitlements, starting with the participants in squelching anti-communist protests…

“ The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes…” Kurt…

*Bird Fly* is a serie which is part of the project *Gaza International Airport - On Land And Air*     “Bird Fly distance” is an expression that refers to the shortest distance between two locations. Light blue is the mandatory background colour for ID photos in passports issued b…

Photographer Kent Klich has depicted life in Gaza since the early 2000s, offering alternative images to the short-lived sensationalism of mass media. With a profound interest in personal stories and a strong emphasis on collaborative efforts, his work reveals the effects of war a…

Women living in Gaza are especially vulnerable to the consequences caused by years of blockades and economic crisis to the healthcare system. There are insufficient treatment facilities, and frequent power outages destabilize an already fragile infrastructure. Resistance deals wi…

01/08/14 and the days to follow   In one day, the first of August 2014, IDF, Israeli Defence Forces killed more than 130, men, women and children, mostly civilians on the streets of Rafah, Gaza. Seven o’clock that morning the sky turned quiet when a 72-hours truce started. The ce…

Excerpt from *Fragments of lost life* by Judith Butler from the book *Killing Time*    "But what we can expect here is an understanding of the way that the colonial occupation of Palestine works (and let us remember that the siege and bombardment are both parts of this occupation…

Civilians may not come under attack in war, it is written in the first lines of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Yet on the 27th of December 2008 Israel attacked Gaza by air and with troops as a military response to rockets fired at Israel from the area. In this conflict, 13 Israeli…

During my first travels to Gaza I would photograph signs of protests, demonstrations, funerals and architecture which were marked by violence and illustrated the conflict between Israel and Palestine. After collaborating with PCHR, Palestinian Center for Human Rights. I started t…

”And isn't the truth that the great dramas are played quietly, that people try to cover their feelings and avoid showing on their faces the storms that are really raging within themselves” Carl Th Dreyer   People who are not aquainted with the homeless people often perceive them …

Beginning in 1994 and for the next five years I visited hospitals and orphanages in Romania. This was the aftermath of the brutal regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu causing the worst AIDS epidemic among children in the world, still one of the poorest and most fractured societie…

When I arrived in Mexico City 1986 there were no were no social workers trying to help the people living on the streets. They were neglected by society only seen and helped by padre Chinchacoma a Spanish monk how had been living together with them and afterwards started homes whe…

I met Beth in 1983. Years of sex work and drug addiction would follow, then decades of ardous struggle to recover, to find inner balance. When The Book of Beth was published she stopped being a sex worker. Equipped with a set of slides she gave talks about her life in the educati…

27/4-54 *Nurse`s Statements* Re-admission to Refsnæs. Alert, lively and daring – quick on the draw with words. A bundle of energy, tricks and ideas. Aggressive and dominating towards the other children. All over the place, especially where…

Travelog 2018-2019 Part of the project TRANSIT at KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark. Travelog was an art project created in close collaboration between artists Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich and students at Køge High School and VUC Adult Education Centre in Rødov…