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I was rifling through some old family photo albums. I found a paper sleeve full of photographs of landscapes, grazing cows, olive trees and white houses. There were also more disturbing images of dead soldiers and war machines. 

The photographs were tiny. I found out they were taken by my great grandfather Willis Bragg, who grew up working class in east London. He was a serviceman in the British Army, stationed in Salonica, Egypt and Palestine between 1915-1916. He wasn’t allowed a camera and these photographs were taken in secret.  

Despite the allure of the photographs, I began to see them as documents of trauma. 

The Balfour Declaration was sent in 1917, just after my great grandfather’s regiment left British Mandate Palestine.

I imagined the gaze of a man I’d never met, in a place now permanently scarred by colonial occupation.