The big picture: Petra Bašnáková's intimate portrait of life among the Palestinian Bedouins

The Slovakian photographer's image of a girl holding aloft a bird captures the natural bond between the semi-nomadic people and their desert landscape For three years from October 2019, the Slovakian photographer Petra Bašnáková lived with and documented the lives of Palestinian Bedouins, who for thousands of years have led a semi-nomadic life in the Judean desert between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. After 1948 and the creation of Israel, much of that territory was incorporated into the West B...