Ancient and Modern Meet in These Photographs of the Holy Land

Ancient and Modern Meet in These Photographs of the Holy Land

Roger Grasas has been traveling around the Middle East with his camera since 2005, documenting the region’s diverse peoples and landscapes. For his latest series, “Ha Aretz”—Aramaic for “The Promised Land”—the Spanish photographer decided to journey through the six countries that now constitute the world described in the Scriptures: Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and …