Frictional Conversations: Engaging a Digital Repository of Photographs in Burj al-Shamali Refugee Camp.

This essay is a culmination of a twenty-two-year-long process of gathering, digitizing, and engaging a repository of photographs in the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Shamali, southeast of Tyre, Lebanon. The larger project that emerged from years of collaboration, titled "Frictional Con-versations," combines research, conversational practice, and performative interventions to expand the concept of the photographic image by dematerializing and rematerializing it in new forms. This essay reflects a -frictional conversation among the authors that took place near Burj al-Shamali in November 2023. During the conversation, the authors revisited their collaborative work and specific collections of images; they also discussed their contribution to understanding the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, as well as their collective responsibilities to care for the digital repository. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]