Ernest Pignon-Ernest is a french artist, born in Nice in 1942. His first street work was in 1966, and he has traveled the world working on ephemeral street art since. His medium of choice has shifted from stencil-work to screen-printing on paper. These paper installations have cropped up in European cities, and parts or North Africa and the Middle East. His work in Palestine depicts Mahmoud Darwish, the famous poet praised as the "Palestinian national poet".
^ This is a photo that I took in Bethlehem, before I knew about Ernest Pignon-Ernest. His website talks about his street art project in Ramallah, but not Bethlehem. However, because the works are identical, I am assuming that this image also belongs to Ernest Pignon-Ernest.
The following photos are gathered from the internet (and can be cross-referenced on Pignon-Ernest's official website, and document his work in Ramallah.
Of his ephemeral work on paper, Ernest describes the fragility of his medium as “death foretold.”( Street Art: the graffiti revolution
