I live and work in Tel Aviv, Israel

 

My passion for photography emerged in childhood, during hours spent in the dark room, with my father, developing black and white prints.

 

Fourteen years ago, photography became for me an intensive, deep, and professional endeavor.

 

My work moves between documentary and staged photography.

My documentary photography is driven mostly by contemporary social issues: the involvement of the Arab and Bedouin communities in Israel, the isolation and distinction of the orthodox community, the existence and role of agriculture in Israel.

In parallel my staged photography is created in my home studio. By using mixed techniques and materials I generate photographic scenes that recreate memories and places from my personal and family biography.

 

By combining photographs from my social-documentary archive with photographs from my family archive, I deal with issues of identity and place attempting to understand the narrative of my family, me being a second generation to the Holocaust.

 

I investigate questions of continuity, I am facing up to my personal challenges, struggles and successes. I bring to life personal family objects and deal with the fear and emptiness after the disaster of 7.10.

 

I have been educated as a physicist and got my Ph.D. in the physiology of the human vision system. My long career was centered around vision, images and color, feeding my transition to becoming a photographer and artist.

 

Currently I am a fourth-year student at the "Hamerhav" school for Art and Photography.