A key figure of photography in mid-twentieth Gaza, KeghamDjeghalian Sr (1915-1981) documented the people and the cityfor nearly four decades. A survivor of the Armenian genocide,he founded Gaza’s first professional photography studio, PhotoKegham, in 1944. His work ranged from formal portraits and ofofficial photographs to family albums and everyday life, offeringa visual chronicle of the city’s history and memory through itsturbulent transitions. In Photo Kegham of Gaza: Unboxing, his grandson, Kegham Djeghalian Jr, revives this legacy while exploring notions of disrupted histories
