After 14 years as a photographer in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one Palestinian man has found his second calling through sculpture, telling stories by recycling metal wire into art. He says that while the effect of a news photo can be fleeting, a work of art remains over time. In the garden of his small house in the village of Bilin, 43-year-old Haitham Khateeb twists and binds wires into images ...
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