ABSTRACT
When the Ottoman Empire crumbled at the end of the First World War, Palestine became a British colony. The hovering British presence and its modes of aerial monitoring and documentation impacted the growing conflict between the nascent Jewish nation and the Arab community in Palestine. The British aerial view had also influenced Zionist visual production and its international reception, as well as the shaping of the Jewish civic space. This chapter soars to observe colonial forces and their covert photographic documentation of Palestine, as well as the authorial archives they created to control it and its residents.
