“We do not seek for sympathy internationally, we want for something to happen. I do not want to hear words of respect and admiration, we need action taken. Our youth is being wasted in prison. Any time I might get shot and murdered, how would words of sympathy save me?” Ahed asked me, at the time of this portrait (2021). Pictured, Ahed Tamimi, a renowned Palestinian activist, portrait taken in nature, just a short walk from her home. At age sixteen, Israel's military jailed Ahed for slapping two heavily armed soldiers wearing protective gear who had shot her cousin at close range in the head. Released at seventeen, just 21 days short of completing an eight-month prison sentence, Ahed studies law and dreams of pursuing a masters in international human rights in Spain. On November 6th, she was arrested from her home in a pre dawn raid from Nabi Saleh in the Occupied West Bank. Her father, Bassem Tamimi, was arrested a week before and has been held in administrative detention. Ahed shared: "We need to be globally heard as a nation expressing the refusal of occupation as a whole. As long as we are occupied, settlements, borders, and walls will keep getting built. If building the settlement in Nabi Saleh is cancelled then it will be built somewhere else. Why do we lose our lives, get shot and arrested marching over nothing? When there is political solidarity, we would be the first people to collaborate."