Escape In Israel by Leonie Purchas

The secular and the religious permeates Leonie Purchas's photo-essay. Inspired by the eighty-seven percent rise in tourism to Israel in 2004, her title Escape in Israel might appear to be ironic and condemnatory in a place where boundaries and territory are deadly subjects of dispute. What stands out in these images is their ability to not only treat their subjects with sympathy as much as humour