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Feminism and the Nude - Ayelet's Point of View

What does a feminist say about nude photographs? It depends.   Some time ago I posted a version of this photograph on a photography sharing site. A furious debate erupted with a claim I am humiliating...

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The wonder of people photography in the city

A city is a place where people gather. Visiting an unfamiliar city is an opportunity to meet unfamiliar people in a place I do not know. I come as a visitor but I am not interested in the eye of a...

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Jeff Wall & Me

I attended, with several hundred other people, Jeff Wall's talk given at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. My "take away" points: Welcome the accident. As one of the most meticulous...

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Zuta - זוטא

A weekly publication of a three poems and one image - in hebrew (Zuta)   There is a lot in common between poems and images: A poem to an image is like a story is to a film. Both capture a fleeting...

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Celeste Prize 2010

While not really news by now (the Celeste Prize 2010 took place in December 2010), I have only last week received the exhibition catalog. FROM THE CATALOG TEXT BY MARK GISBOURNE(1) "In another way the...

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Barbershop, Tel Aviv 2011

I have got off a bus, probably my first bus ride (in Israel) for more than twenty years. Makes one feel a tourist in your own country. What a great setting for a fresh look at the city you know so...

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The "Golda Project"

  The Golda Project is a joint initiative with “Golda”, a second hand clothing shop. My goal is to combine Art, Consumerism and play in a new and fun way. The shop sells clothes. I, on the other hand,...

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London, 2013

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Real Estate (a series in progress)

  It's about claiming a piece of public space, and interfering (one way or another) with the strangers around me.    

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From "White Cube"

  A continuing series depicting people in public spaces - in this case, in a particular type of "Public Space" - the art display "While Cube".   Binyamin Gallery in Tel Aviv...

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Untitled Location: Saturday, 19th of October 2013, 5:56pm to 6:00pm

Untitled Location, 19th of October 2013, from 5:56pm to 6:00pm Time has an unavoidable presence in photography. So has "truth" (or lack of). One may take these for granted or embrace them. I think it...

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Studio

The stark studio, assigned to me as part of my Advanced Studies in The School of Art, Hamidrasha, is a "place". A strange place that is furthest from the notion of "familiar" as can be.  Getting to...

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More from the "White Cube"

This is an image created some months ago, during the "Fresh Paint" event of 2013. Sometimes I think I go to these Art places mainly for the people - the "material" of my own art making. I discover my...

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More from "Real Estate"

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Studio, 2009

20090211-_F7J1035 It is so exciting to look back at work one did in the past, and take a fresh look. As being there at the time, I can recall my own state of mind when it was taken, and also remember...

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Studio, 2009 (self next to Dina Levy's paintings)

Self, 2009  

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In Private Rooms (in Progress)

By entering a private space of someone else one creates a totally new space that is outside of the day to day existence of both. As a male photographer, I find it extremely interesting to tip the...

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In Private Rooms (in progress)

This project is on going and has become the backbone of a parallel video art project I am working on. The essence of it is the exploration of the cumbersome, sometimes funny and always somewhat...

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Authorized Penetration (in progress)

As a continuation of my photography in private places, I am now working on a Video Art project - basically entering private places, with permission,  to discuss boundaries and introduce mutual...

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Authorized Penetration (in Progress) 2

From our email exchange "..The man-woman interaction, clearly stated ahead of time, frankly makes me wonder.. Where do you want to take this? On the other hand, I like the way you photograph and I...

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"Fine Art" Photography - is it the only Photography "Art" category?

I hear so much about "Fine Art" Photography. Seems to me it is typically black and white and tends to highlight (excuse the pun) lighting, "beauty" and, in general, "pleasing" pictures. Maybe this is...

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What is the difference between "Nude" and "Naked"?

"Nude" is a way to see the body as an artistic object. "Naked" is to see the person. I am much more interested in nakedness - emotional as well as physical. When masks are removed.   And while we are...

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My street photography: the penny is dropping

In parallel to becoming totally immersed in what was initially my "Nude Photography", I also started to experience street photography. I have always been a "people watcher", so this was a natural...

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Nude as Mask

I received an e-mail from a young woman one day. She was an aspiring nude model, interested in Art, had participated in a few nude sessions already, and thought it could be an interesting experience...

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Photographer or Artist?

What am I, a Photographer, an Artist, or both? (I will ignore, with your permission, the possibility of "neither"). In an attempt to simplify the analysis, I will define four points on a continuum....

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The Street as a Reflection of the Soul

I sometimes find myself roaming the streets, with my camera and a lot of spare time, seeking subjects that inretest me - and find nothing. Everything is bland, gray, mundane. All the interesting...

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Man in Front of a Large Window

Someone in front of a large window. At the Musemum of Modern Art in New York. No words (except that this is the image on my "business card"    

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