Miki Kratsman, Shabtai Pinchevsky, Angle 23° Anti-mapping, Khan Al-Ahmar, 2019

With their ongoing project Anti-Mapping Kratsman and Pinchevsky seek to survey and document the geography of the Palestinian areas as a necessary alternative to the official Israeli photographic registrations. Military considerations have imposed restrictions on the representations – among other things the aerial photo must work with a reduced number of pixels (compared with international standards). This is done to limit what the population is actually allowed to see. This muddied map production means that small settlements are easier to relocate or remove, and it thus becomes a matter of the exercise of power.