Spring 2006 The last war in Lebanon prompted Israeli Designer Nili Lotan to design a gun print on her silk charmuse tee dresses and scarves. From then on Nili Lotan has been searching through important photojournalists’ work for images portraying meaningful historical and socially relevant events while, at the same time expressing a point of view. Her work is a union between art, photojournalism, and fashion. Nili is using the dresses as her canvas to express her thoughts. She hopes that not only will one enjoy wearing those one of a kind dresses and scarves, but the pieces will be thought provoking. The subjects she explores address mostly social issues and the young people who dared to arouse change.  They range from the 1968 student protests in Paris to 1969’s Woodstock.

In Fall 2009, Nili designed dresses with images depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 along with the images of the Separation Wall in Jerusalem taken by Israeli photographer Ziv Koren http://www.zivkoren.com

The social atmosphere in Israel and the delicate relationship between the Israeli’s and Palestinian’s is a subject that frequently informs in her work. In Spring 2010, she used images of the American photographer, Peter Simon, showing graffiti in Washington from the 1960s which read “I have a dream” and “Peace Gotta Come now.”

The pieces are sold as part of her collections in specialty stores in cities all over the world such as New York, Paris, Tel-Aviv, Beirut ,Tokyo and more.
In 2010 Nili collaborated with Israeli Photographer, Raanan cohen on a project and the images featuring in this story is the result of that collaboration.
Raanan picked for the project 3 locations that are part of the current and historical conflict in the middle east. These locations, which to this day remain points of friction between Israel and Palestine, and at times continue to come under fire.

The Tunnel Road that by-passes Bethlehelm , that was built in 1996, following the Oslo Agreement-one of a number of roads that aimed to by-pass Palestinian territory. The road is comprised of two tunnels which traverse the border between Palestinian and Israeli territory, between Beit Gallah and the Gilo, a suburb of Jerusaelm. During the El Aksa Intifada there were many incidents in the area.

Suburb of Gilo, was established after the six-day war, following its capture by the Israeli Army in the course of the war. It serves as part of a ring of suburbs designed to surround and define the city borders of Jerusalem. It sits precisely on the "seam"- of the Green line adjoining Area , which in the Oslo Accord, was determined to be part of the Palestinian Authority.

The Separation Wall which was built by the Israeli government with the aim of separating between Israel and Palestine in order to fervent invasion of terrorists into Israel, This fence has been and still is a source of intense controversy and resistance and it has raised questions as to Israel's motives in building it among various nations in the world. The building of the fence has evoked international condemnation as well as demonstrations and violent protests along side it, since its presence among other things separates Palestinians from their land.
For more about Raanan Cohen http://raananphoto.com