People: Portrait (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
The Street Studio on Independence Street

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The Street Studio on Independence Street is a community experiment that I performed on Good Things Day.
I actually took a black background and tied it in the main square of the city
I invited people to be photographed at no cost and to tell their personal stories in order to break the tension between me and them.
Before the community experiment I had many fears, I did not know what to expect And I was not sure whether the residents would want to come to be photographed as complete strangers and as a result of it would it affect the honesty and truthfulness of my photography.
The ultimate goal of my experiment was to give a face and a voice to the inhabitants, a real and clear voice where they could be themselves, without masks and without borders, simply being themselves.
I wanted to look for a place of sincerity, truth and give a stage to those faces
To tell their story to the world, those people that their voice is never heard.
Simple people of real life, not glamorous, not famous
Just people who live life every day and try to survive the game of life.
In the photograph I tried to isolate the individual from the street scenes where I work every day and see the difference between the classic street photography and that of the street studio, what are the differences between the two and what tension is being created between them.
I was looking for something more intimate, more personal, less quick and spontaneous, One that will allow me as a photographer and a person a place to express myself in a deeper way, to look at the faces of those photographed through the camera's viewfinder and to search for this sad, strong, sensitive look in which the photographed person becomes a whole person, to a whole life story through one frame.
The project reveals in an intimate and sincere manner of the human mosaic and the human genome which compiles the complete state puzzle.
One religious, one dark-skinned, one white, Muslim, Christian, young and old
Women and children, men, young and old.
They all stand in front of the camera lens without wrong positions, without judgment, without borders and barriers and without cultural gaps.
They are all different and equal in the eyes of the viewfinder of the lens.
Their frame reveals humanity, a crucial moment of vulnerability and one universal truth; we are all essentially immigrants on earth living together on borrowed time.
photography teacher and an educator in Hazorea kibbutz , north of Israel .
specialized in people and street photography .
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The Street Studio on Independence Street is a community experiment that I performed on Good Things Day.
I actually took a black background and tied it in the main square of the city
I invited people to be photographed at no cost and to tell their personal stories in order to break the tension between me and them.
Before the community experiment I had many fears, I did not know what to expect And I was not sure whether the residents would want to come to be photographed as complete strangers and as a result of it would it affect the honesty and truthfulness of my photography.
The ultimate goal of my experiment was to give a face and a voice to the inhabitants, a real and clear voice where they could be themselves, without masks and without borders, simply being themselves.
I wanted to look for a place of sincerity, truth and give a stage to those faces
To tell their story to the world, those people that their voice is never heard.
Simple people of real life, not glamorous, not famous
Just people who live life every day and try to survive the game of life.
In the photograph I tried to isolate the individual from the street scenes where I work every day and see the difference between the classic street photography and that of the street studio, what are the differences between the two and what tension is being created between them.
I was looking for something more intimate, more personal, less quick and spontaneous, One that will allow me as a photographer and a person a place to express myself in a deeper way, to look at the faces of those photographed through the camera's viewfinder and to search for this sad, strong, sensitive look in which the photographed person becomes a whole person, to a whole life story through one frame.
The project reveals in an intimate and sincere manner of the human mosaic and the human genome which compiles the complete state puzzle.
One religious, one dark-skinned, one white, Muslim, Christian, young and old
Women and children, men, young and old.
They all stand in front of the camera lens without wrong positions, without judgment, without borders and barriers and without cultural gaps.
They are all different and equal in the eyes of the viewfinder of the lens.
Their frame reveals humanity, a crucial moment of vulnerability and one universal truth; we are all essentially immigrants on earth living together on borrowed time.
About author:
documentary photographer and social artist based in Israel .photography teacher and an educator in Hazorea kibbutz , north of Israel .
specialized in people and street photography .
BACK TO GALLERY