I photograph people - almost exclusively. I am interested in photographing people when they are in two distinct states of being – when in the most public and when in the most intimate of places.
I like to photograph strangers that are usually not aware of my existence and if they are, it is usually too late for them to "prepare" for the shot. I usually look for them in cities. Cities are where people gather. The streets, buildings and sites are only background. When I photograph, people are at once individual and universal somehow. The mystery of photography is evident whenever a resulting image, which I know is derived from reality, becomes something totally fictional for me through a process I do not understand.
At the very other extreme, I use the camera to penetrate people's most intimate space. Through open dialog I try to learn who they are and gain access to what goes on in their head and through this process try to make the camera disappear.
I am also constantly looking for the common factor between these two extremes.
Education
Group Exhibitions
I like to photograph strangers that are usually not aware of my existence and if they are, it is usually too late for them to "prepare" for the shot. I usually look for them in cities. Cities are where people gather. The streets, buildings and sites are only background. When I photograph, people are at once individual and universal somehow. The mystery of photography is evident whenever a resulting image, which I know is derived from reality, becomes something totally fictional for me through a process I do not understand.
At the very other extreme, I use the camera to penetrate people's most intimate space. Through open dialog I try to learn who they are and gain access to what goes on in their head and through this process try to make the camera disappear.
I am also constantly looking for the common factor between these two extremes.
Education
- 2000- on-going: Self study in the areas of Art Critique, Photography, Photographic Theory and Philosophy
- 2007-2008: Photography and Advanced Photography at "Photo-Way" school of photography
- 2008- on going: Personal photography mentoring by Dafna Ichilov
- 2011: Musrara, Art & Photography, Post Graduate studies
Group Exhibitions
- April 2011: "Human Landscape", Artists House Tel Aviv, curator Daniela Talmor
- April 2011: "Portrait of the Woman", Shoham, curator Rachel Ziv
- January 2011: "it's only the beginning" (Web Exhibition), curator Dorit Pukach
- December 2010 Finalist in “Celeste Prize, 2’nd Edition”, New York (3'rd Place)
- October 2010: "Sleep Paralysis", curators Uri Garon & Noa Cecila Cohen
- August 2010: "Action Time", Yearot Menashe 2010 Festival, curator Hila Sali
- June 2010: "Distance Keeper", curators Rivka Kave, Dina Levy
- May 2010: “Salon de Refuses”, curators Yael Ben-Shalom, Michal Rivlin
- April, 2010: “Belongs/Does not belong”, curator Miri Krimolovsky
- November, 2009: "Alfred & Co"
- September, 2009: "Connections", Curator Ron Yeshua
- September, 2009: "Boulevard Exhibition" by the city of Tel-Aviv, selected photograph
- May 2009: "Group Exhibition", Curator Tamar Eloul
- March, 2009: "Kibbutz Galuyot South", Curator Israel Rabinowitz
- October, 2008: Web Exhibition for "Project-30"
- October, 2008: "Artishowk 2: Genesis", Curator Tamar Moshinsky
- September, 2008: Graduate Exhibition, Photo-Way school of photography, Tel-Aviv
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