Photojournalism nominee

In the last six years, I'm documenting the northern Golan Heights, following a family that left the big city, Tel Aviv and build their house in a kibbutz. Their transition was very challenging and resembles a deep ploughing in a basalt soil. In my early documenting work I was following their daily life and experiences. But later, my visual thinking changed. I was influenced more and more from the surrounding natural materials and my feelings during my observation. And I felt that the colour was no longer necessary for me, I abandoned the colour and I understood that the immediacy and the digital photographic cleanliness did not serve me either, then I switched to analog, using a medium format. When I'm running the entire black and white development and printing process.

From my project diary:

In the afternoon, before sunset, the bees come out to seek a golden blossom on the Syrian side. One day I lie on the high mound that separates the field from the Syrian border and I watched through the fence. Golden flowers blossomed constituted a favourite destination for the bees, the bees do not need a permit to visit the other side of the border.

For me the camera is a tool to imprint ideas, reviews or manifests; related to personality and inner feelings affected by my daily life. My creative process is not always distinct, sometimes it is coincidental and sometimes follows processes and research. I am seeking a systematic and mechanical way to transfer a concept, sequence repetition of images, emphasize the message and the experience. The camera freezes the inanimate object, exposing any wrinkle or an aesthetic “mistake”. The inanimate object involved with my feelings, emotions and ideas; not less than a living body. The human body undergoes erosion during his life and in parallel it creates erosion on its individual and global environment. I follow this weathering, over time; trying to use the camera to document this process through materials and objects.