Between walls of graffiti & decaying buildings, the Ajmi neighbourhood in the old city of Jaffa, there exists a daily life similar to that of any other city in Israel.
Though the bad reputation may fool you, in fact it is mostly the backdrop which is different, the rest is the same.

Most Israelis connect the Ajmi neighbourhood to arab uprisings and overty.

But spending several day and nights roaming the streets and speaking to the locals I came to realize that Israelis have allowed their paranoia to shadow the truth.

The locals are warm and friendly. Though most wouldn’t let me photograph them, they were all hospitable and I recieved several invitations to come in for freshly ground coffie and sweets.

My project on the neighbourhood is incomplete to say the least.
The assignment was to make a series which could fit in with the requirments of a magazine article.
Containing images which can fill the part of the Cover, Wide shot, Long shot and Portrait (Not always required, more in ethnographic magazines than news magazines), this series was handed in for the final review - and the comments were plenty.

But I am not satisfied.

I feel I could have done a much better job (even though one of my instructors actually told me it is the best series on the neighbourhood he has ever seen) and I intend on completing it in the future.