In my eyes, photography is the ability to deliver to its viewer a sense of a certain moment. I use the word "sense" here because I believe that the idea of a moment is fiction; and that an experience is (truly) uncapturable, nor definable; Everything around us is prolonged: happening, occuring, being (words are lacking in this way). All more true when dealing with something as quick(?) and as inconstant as the palette of photography: light.

I never thought or articulated the above when I started to photograph, but I did become instinctively drawn to photograph abstract photo images. I have found myself poundering many times about a particular sight or a scenario in the context of its own motion.

Usually, when we photograph, the camera "freezes" the happening, and we define its product, the image, as "realistic". But in reality, what seems "lifeless" or motionless is actually is, and a prolonged image might reflect, in many cases, more of what is real.

In my eyes, an illusionary-real "scale" was formed, a blend of the restless and the motionless. That "scale" did not only widened the already narrow point of view of the camera, but also changed the way I looked at things. In a way, the search for a relative motion of something (or some happening) while using an object which is meant, basically, to negate it, to "freeze" it - set free what I was trying to seize.
Mechanically, the camera's shutter speed took the front seat. I remember how my finger flicked frantically, sometimes, on the shutter / aperture ring, in search for a suitable "medium-long exposure" - for lack of a better term - to express, in an abstract image, a particular experience. The wind hammering the branches of a pine tree - what is? what do I really see?

I think that there is a vast well of creativity waiting, for those who try to achieve something that is, by its own definition and tools, unachievable - while admitting the unattainable and the natural limitations of our own perception, all the while persisting upon the attempt with humility and grace.
If you reach the Northern star you lose the north.


Selected exhibitions:
2004: ZOA House Tel-Aviv
2008: Ra’anana park gallery
2009: Jerusalem theatre
2012: Rapaport center for culture and art, Haifa
2017: Colorida art gallery, Lisboa