2008 Photo Contest, Daily Life, 3rd prize
Photographer

Christopher Anderson

Magnum Photos for National Geographic

01 January, 2007

Abu Majed and his family work on their farm, which has been divided in two by the Israeli security wall (which can be seen in the background), near the Efrat settlement. Around 180,000 Palestinians, some 24,000 of them Christians, live in and around Bethlehem. Also present are a number of Jewish settlements, with a population approaching 80,000.

About the photographer

Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2005. He has served as a contract photographer for Newsweek and National Geographic, and is presently the first ever...

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