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The Difference Between Bullets and Stones

Michael Christopher Brown

The Difference Between Bullets and Stones is an exhibition of selects from the book of the same name, which unites the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha and National Geographic photographer Michael Christopher Brown.

The work focuses on lived experience within Palestinian community amid ongoing challenges. Abu Toha’s poems, written from Gaza, pulse with memory, grief, and unyielding hope. Brown’s photographs, made mostly across the West Bank and Jerusalem, illuminate daily existence shaped by checkpoints, displacement, and resilience. Together, their work creates a rare dialogue across geography and form—poetry and photography speaking as one.

With an introduction by photographer and activist Misan Harriman, the book and exhibition bear witness to loss, endurance, and the will to survive and dream amid devastation. It humanises lives too often reduced to headlines, offering an intimate, emotional record of a people’s struggle and spirit.

The project is also an act of solidarity. All profits from the book were donated to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), supporting urgent medical aid and relief for children and families in Gaza. By bringing together art and activism, The Difference Between Bullets and Stones invites readers to a deeper understanding of one of the most pressing humanitarian crises of our time, where every word and every image insist on the dignity of life and the power of collective witness.