© Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Untitled #2, from the series August 06, 2006 © Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Untitled #6, from the series August 06, 2006 “The images in the series “August 06″ were taken in the summer of 2006, during the cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon. These photographs portray Ickowicz’s view of the war a dark…
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© Adi Nes, Hagar, from the series Bible, 2006 © Adi Nes, Untitled, from the series Soldiers, 2000 © Adi Nes, Untitled, from the series Soldiers, 1998 “Staged photography, the style which I’ve adopted, demands complex production and exacting direction, if for no other reason than a great deal of money and energy are poured…
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© Yuval Yairi, from the series Forevermore © Yuval Yairi, from the series Forevermore “Yuval Yairi’s (b. 1961) body of photographs, Forevermore, focuses on the Hansen Hospital in Jerusalem, the abode of Hansen’s disease patients, an illness which had erroneously been identified with biblical leprosy. Originally called Jesus Hilfe, the hospital was founded in 1887…
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© Vardi Kahana, Yael, Safed, from the series One Family 2007 © Vardi Kahana, Tal R, Copenhagen Denmark, from the series One Family 2004 © Vardi Kahana, Cousin Rina, Groningen, Netherlands, from the series One Family 2004 To see more of Verdi’s work click here
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© Inbal Sivan, Baroque, 2003 © Inbal Sivan, Nude, 2007 “Inbal Sivan’s images borrow heavily from traditions in art history, including aspects of the “male gaze.” It entails inactive women looking at some vague point off-camera suggesting that they are not engaged with their audience (or with anything) but rather have appeared, conveniently, to be…
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© Michal Chelbin, Angelina with her Father, Israel, 2005 from the Strangely Familiar series © Michal Chelbin, Black Eye, Ukraine, 2006 from the Strangely Familiar series “The images in this series are an attempt to capture human stories in everyday life, those that exist in the space between the odd and the ordinary. My…
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