Kent Klich has photographed Gaza across five books, and this one, published by Dogwalk Books in 2024, is the fifth. Its structure carries the argument: images of Gaza International Airport at its opening and at its later destruction are set together, so that a single piece of infrastructure becomes the book’s recurring figure. What was built as a gate to the world is shown in use and then in ruin, and the pairing gives the present a longer timeline than news coverage usually allows.

The airport is not treated as mere illustration. It stands for the possibility of an independent Palestine and for how quickly such possibilities have been undone. Around Klich’s photographs, the book gathers other voices: Muhammad Shehada writes on Gaza’s past, present and future, while the book reprints tweets by Hind Khoudary written across the hundred days from October 7, 2023 to January 14, covering a period when daily reporting moved faster than any book could.

The book is edited by Kent Klich with Tina Enghoff, who also designed it; Narayana Press printed it. It runs 215 pages in softcover at 190 by 250 millimetres, in English, with colour plates. The multiple hands involved shape how it reads: photographs, a written essay and a stream of dated posts are placed in counterpoint rather than merged into one voice.

Its recognition includes a shortlisting in the 2025 Swedish Photobook Prize. For collectors, the book’s interest lies less in claims about scarcity than in method. It is a sustained, sequenced body of work by a photographer who has returned to the same place over years, and it holds the airport’s symbol and the recent record of events on facing terms.