Behind the lens

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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.

I am not seeking to create a balance in my creations and not to serve the concept of beauty. The camera is like a painting brush, perpetuating fleeting emotions, impulsive or calculated and rational ideas. My desire to achieve perfection in photographic images brings me to examine the location again and again, following my emotions, the right angle and the light, while searching for the exact conditions observing the moment with minimal intervention or editing after shooting.

I was born in Israel. Graduated with honor from visual communication design in Tel Aviv and Social Sciences at the Open University of Israel. Over the years I painted, I was influenced by surrealism, cubism, architecture and industrial music. I always followed the geometrical form and its interaction with the environment. During the last 10 years I have worked as a user experience designer, visual designer and user researcher in the mobile technological realm. As part of my daily work I create visual and interaction designs to meet the needs and habits of my users.

Resume

Exhibitions (shortlist)

2023 Solo exhibition, ArtspaceTLV | Contemporary Israeli Art, A Place To Return To, Curator Michal Baror
2016 Group Exhibition, Rayko Photo Center San Francisco, CA USA: ‘WITH OUR OWN EYES’ Documentary photography
2015 Group exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado USA: Memories, Stories, Histories
2015 MetroArt, photo on the move, photography exhibition on buses by Metropolin and Zilum-Baam Tel-Aviv
2015 Exposure Award Collections, Image from my project Positions was displayed as part of the digital display at the
Musee du Louvre

Awards and Press (shortlist)

2023 Punktum, Analog photography magazine, Solo exhibition A Place To Return To
2018 International Photography Awards (IPA), Honorable Mention: Open Borders
2016 Haaretz Israel News: Expose To The North
2016 Fine Art Photo Awards, PHOTOJOURNALISM NOMINEE: POSITIONS – A year after and nothing has changed
2015 Lensculture Editor’s Choice, Visual Storytelling Awards 2015. SUMMER VACATION – WE NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL BRING THE HOT SUMMER WINDS
2014 Lensculture Editor’s Choice, Visual Storytelling Awards 2014 for the project POSITIONS
2014 Haaretz Israel News: POSITIONS Pending soldiers during “Solid Rock” Operation in Gaza

Publications

Patent – human interaction and design

Education

2006 B.A. in Media Communications department at the Open University
2002 Visual communication department, Ascola Tel Aviv – Visual Design and Fine arts
2019 Artist workshop with Tal Shochat, Ayelet Hashachar Cohen, Gustavo Sagorsky,
Michal BarOr, Rona Yefman and Ron Amir
2020 Artist workshop with Davi Barel, Yaara Gur-Arieh and Sarah Filaire
2013 Product management – PMsphere

Experience

2018 – present Design lead, HCL SW
2017 – 2018 Head of Design and Product, Audioburst
2014 – 2017 Director of Design and Product, Kaymera
2011 – 2014 Head of Design and Product, Wiser
2009 – 2011 Senior Interaction Designer, UXElements
2007 – 2009 Senior Designer, Samsung Research Centre
2006 – 2007 Designer, Comverse
2000 – 2006 Development leader