ping pong and dark pits.

A ping pong table has been installed on the 5th floor of Solent University - one of the kind sponsor of Giving Peace Faces.

Even though the scanners I use are on floor 0, it has been very hard to not be tempted by a game or two, especially since some of the Photography Department staff are really, really good players… There's something about tennis table, I find it totally disconnects my brain from the rest of the world, a little bit like a soft sneeze. Very addictive.

Thankfully, nobody was in yesterday, so I had no excuse not to scan. A few more portraits can be seen below. I am hoping to start securing some funding for the development of the project into a multilingual website, exhibition, and book within the next six months.

Step by step.

One major task will also be to think of the relationship between words accompanying the portraits and the photographs. How much do you say, and how do you say it. How do I give what I think I've documented. 
Sometimes, at the back of my head, questions of a more tricky nature start to arise. How much does a portrait tell. Does it say anything at all about the sitter. What can you actually read into a face. What can you read from hands. Could it be that is says strictly nothing?
To document.
I quickly close my eyes and let them fade out. I'm not ready yet. They open a vast pit, I don't know its depth, and I'm scared of falling into it. Last time I did was four years ago.
Maybe I should start to look for someone who is not so afraid of that dark pit, who has found a few lights along the way, and will be happy to enlighten it, with the assurance of someone that has been there and back.

Moshe - one of several facilitators of an interfaiths dialogue program.

Alexandra is the director of a fully bilingual/binational pre-school in Jerusalem,
 everything there is taught in both languages.

Michal has been involved in face-to-face dialogue facilitating for decades.
She studied, specialised and wrote her memoir on dialogue groups

Aziz (more soon).