THE PREPARATIONS – The memorial day

The memorial day for the fallen soldiers of Israel and victims of terrorism is a ritual, held each year in the same format without gaps, but the number of fallen is changing. The ceremony is an endpoint and a starting point in a cycle of friction, violence, struggle and fighting. As if the ritual had come to keep this circle of loss and to justify that this cycle should be going on. Here in this work, the images focus on preparations for the ceremony. Nothing is quite standing still. The soldiers are dressed in unrepresentative uniforms. They practice their steps …