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Every friday morning, the past several months, Palestinian residents of the village Ni’ilin protest together with Israeli and international activists against the seperation fence which is being errected west of the village.
The fence, a source of heated discussion which I’d preffer not to get into at the moment, attracts a lot of media attention and [...]
Andrea & Stephanie’s course was about building an intimate photo essay.
Out job was to choose a subject, find the people who fit into that subject and get close to them in order to build a personal and intimate project.
I chose, for some unexplainable reason, to focus on the Emo youth around the city.
Together with one [...]
In my last post I explained to you guys about the Foundry Photojournalism workshop and about arriving in Mexico.
Now I want to show you the first set of images I made while there.
On out forth day in Mexico, Yuda and I made our way to the Zocolo. Mexico city’s main square where social activity is [...]
A month after the Catholics, Protestants and the rest of the gang made their way down the Via Dolorosa, the Greek Orthodox church & the Armenian church show up.
Celebrating the Easter much later, thanks to a slightly different calendar, these pilgrims seem more solemn & heavy hearted than their cousins.
Concentrating less on the Via Dolorosa [...]
If it is devout Christian monks you are expecting, you will find yourself surprised.
On Good Friday, two days before Easter, hundreds of pilgrims flock to the Via Dolorosa & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Making their way down Jesus’ last path, these believers carry heavy wooden crosses down a narrow Jerusalem road.
These crosses, ironically rented [...]
Between walls of graffiti & decaying buildings, the Ajmi neighbourhood in the old city of Jaffa, there exists a daily life similar to that of any other city in Israel.
Though the bad reputation may fool you, in fact it is mostly the backdrop which is different, the rest is the same.
Most Israelis connect the Ajmi [...]
One of my favorite classes during my first year was The language of photography.
Instructed by a wonderful artist and photographer called Yoram Vidal, this class focused on learning the techniques you must understand in order to get to the end result of what we consider “a good photograph”.
The first technique we discussed was how to [...]
In the beginning of 2008 I went, together with the rest of the first-years from my college, to the Baba Salli revelry.
The revelry, held annually in memory of the Baba Salli, a Jewish religious leader very highly thought of by the Moroccan Jews living in Israel.
The revelry’s crowd, made up of members of many different [...]
