In my work I am trying to eliminate the boundaries between reality (both physical and psychological) and imagination. I believe these boundaries are only artificial anyway. Fantasies, dreams, fears and desires are all part of our psychological world and are as real as what we see and experience. I am experimenting in mixing these different levels of "reality" in my photography, using "surreal" visionary elements as part of a "real" external and internal world.

Each body of work is another station in my journey and another chapter in my "book of life”. I query my identity (or shall I say "identities") - from my youth in Israel to my current life in London's gay melting pot - I search, I discover and each answered question leads to another, yet unanswered, one. I mix physical, psychological, conscious and subconscious explorations into one single exploration – identity.

My travels, my friends, my intimate encounters and experiences are all taking part in this journey. Surreal colouring and composition and the use of contemporary iconography are some of my "typical" technical traits but also an inseparable aspect of my point of view. This is the way I see and feel.

Current Bodies of Work:

• ID-entity
  (my past , someone’s present, other’s future…)

In a series of staged images, I try to take the viewer into my inner world of memories, conflicts and trapped emotions. I recreated and reinvented fragments of my own life as an adolescent discovering his sexuality, growing up in non-tolerant conservative society. For some of the images I even returned to the original Tel Aviv locations of my first encounters and revelations to recreate the magical moments.
This body of work is shot in a “surreal” fantasy style in a medium format.

• There
  (metaphysical travel photography)

During my first travels I tried to capture the physical iconic beauty of the cities and places I visited, and interpret them in my own way.
At a later stage, on returning to the same places, those iconic images, gradually began to blur, and I found myself searching for a different, metaphysical, dimension, where space and time turn into emotion, where a collective experience turns into a private one, and the physical and sensual dimension turns into a psychological, metaphoric and spiritual one.
In the images collected in this body of work, the geographic space and even its human inhabitants are stripped from their individual identities to reveal another level of metaphysical and surreal identity. City lights become blurred and transform into a texture, human beings become random spots of melancholy, a water puddle is converted into an alternative world, a country road or railway becomes an unanswered question…
An external, faraway “there”, becomes an internal “there” deep inside us.

• You or Me?!
  (a cross-boundaries trip into physical and spiritual experiences in Gay London)

My new body of work, triggered by my move from Tel Aviv to London, is inspired by casual encounters and experiences of a “foreigner” in today’s London, where everyone is a “foreigner”, a mystery, an enigma, and comes from “somewhere else” ….

Loneliness, excitement, fear, passion and self-discovery are all aspects of living in a big cosmopolitan city. I am trying to capture these feelings in a deliberate "snapshot" style, searching for the secret intimate moments within day-to-day scenes and the "divine" that is hidden in all of us...

Upcoming: “Women”

My upcoming project is a follow up to both “ID-entity” (shot in a similar “surreal” quality, using medium format) and “You & Me?!”. It comes from my own special metaphysical fascination with female objects – mystical, strong-featured, “bigger than life” women… in working process…

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