To mark Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day, we invite you to a powerful lecture exploring how Israeli artists responded in real time to the trauma and aftermath of October 7, 2023, with special attention to a project that birthed the traveling exhibition and book "Album Darom" and its 2024 presentation in Los Angeles. Beginning with a remarkable series of daily Facebook posts launched by scholar and photographer Prof. Dana Arieli on October 20, 2023, this session will trace a visual record of the Western Negev through historical photographs, contemporary artistic projects, and deeply immediate images of life during and after the attacks. Bringing together the work of renowned photographers and ordinary people alike, these images capture fear, resilience, memory, beauty, interruption, and survival, revealing how photography became a way to witness, process, and preserve a shattered world.