Beit Safafa

DIY aerial photography workshop taking place May 8 2013 in Beit Safafa, a southern Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood/village.

We met, a group of students from Bezalel and activists from the village, in the protest tent which was created for a joint resistance against the construction of a highway that splits the village/neighborhood in two, severely damaging the inhabitants community life, well-being and quality of life. Participants: (add your names)

Our attempt and results We had an excellent workshop with lots of enthusiasm. We did one long flight with the kite photographing the construction of the road, walking along it. The second flight was done independently by the students and activists, it was their first flight and they did a great job! Unfortunately we had a bad unmount of the memory card from the computer and the second batch of photos was deleted! But we will do another flight soon to restore the photos that were lost. Here is a link to the beginning of the stitched map:

Questions and next steps We hope to work a bit deeper with people from the community which are greatly affected by the road and create another layer of annotation, later to be used for presenting their case in court.