Last month, during the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukhot, Q. Sakamaki photographed the scene in Jerusalem’s Old City, including at the Western Wall. In these photos, a Hasidic, ultra-Orthodox Jew prays at the Wall, with the date-palm frond of his lulav — held during Sukhot prayers — projecting above his head; a young boy reads the Torah by the Wall; a group of female Israeli soldiers walk by the Wall; a Palestinian woman and boy walk near the Old City’s Damascus Gate; and a young Jewish woman’s reflection is seen in the window of the bus in which she is riding. Sakamaki, an internationally renowned documentary and conflict photographer, was a longtime East Villager before relocating to the Upper West Side a few years ago.
