By the Olive Trees
Michael Friberg and Benjamin Rasmussen
Self-Published
English
Softcover (Newsprint)
80 pages
300 × 420 mm
2013
ISBN Not Available
By The Olive Trees is a project by Benjamin Rasmussen and Michael Friberg about the lives of Syrian and Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. It is a newsprint publication and is distributed free of charge.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/books/14584-by-the-olive-trees)
About the Artists
Michael Friberg is a photographer and director in Los Angeles. His work has focused on the Syrian and Iraqi refugee crisis in Jordan and Lebanon as well as explorations of Mormon Culture in Utah and water issues facing the Colorado River. In 2013 he was named one of the PDN 30. In 2016, alongside Benjamin Rasmussen, he headed up and curated the DISPATCHED project in collaboration with VSCO in which 6 different photographers each worked on a specific project about the refugee crisis in the Middle East.
michaelfriberg.com
(source: http://michaelfriberg.com/about/)
Benjamin Rasmussen is an American-Faroese photographer who grew up in the Philippines and has been based in the American West for over a decade.
benjaminrasmussenphoto.com
(source: https://benjaminrasmussenphoto.com/Info)
