A living environment is a defined terrain where actual and imaginative perceptions are mutually experienced. The current flow of global information intensifies the simultaneous sense of personal space, and images serve as its geographic and emotional expansions. This kind of amalgamation narrows the distances between the self and the other to a point where remote events become part of the private reality. The universal language of visual photographs coupled with their electronic distribution creates a swift cross-territorial tide which transforms the traditional formation of identities.
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PRIVATE 47
Photo cover: Benyamin Reich
PRIVATE 47, ISRAEL
(Winter 2009-10)
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz (Settlement)
Between 2003 and 2006 I documented the settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The photographs focus on the architecture of the settlements, portraits of settlers, fences and roadblocks, and examine their relationship with the landscape. The portraits are all photographed in frontal poses […]
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, PRIVATE 47, p. 08-11
Eddie Gerald
Eddie Gerald (The cave dwellers)
Cold darkness prevails at all hours in the cave at Mufakara, southern Hebron hills. Beneath six meters of rock lives a ten-member Palestinian family, upholding a traditional way of life, which hasn’t changed for the last 200 years. They live by subsistence agriculture, producing milk […]
Eddie Gerald, PRIVATE 47, p. 12-15
Yuval Tebol
Yuval Tebol (Faith, land, conflict)
In February 2006 I was sent to cover the evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Amona Outpost in the West Bank for the Swiss newspaper Der Bund. Following the experience I had while covering the evacuation, I felt drawn to the topic and decided to focus on it. The issue that caught my attention […]
Yuval Tebol, PRIVATE 47, p. 16-21
Yaakov Israel
Yaakov Israel (The legitimacy of landscape)
The Israeli landscape seems to evoke a true sense of security in its residents: this could be the reason why large portions of it go mostly unnoticed. Israeli borders are evanescent and not always immediately discerned by its residents. While their physical position and existence is known […]
Yaakov Israel, PRIVATE 47, p. 22-25
Kobi Wolf
Kobi Wolf (The Jewish settlers)
The Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Eastern Jerusalem have become one of the most argumentative issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The collision of Jewish nationalist colonization and Palestinian nationalism, both laying claim to the same territory […]
Kobi Wolf, PRIVATE 47, p. 26-29
Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci (My mother)
Elinor Carucci is known for her relentlessly intimate photographs that capture the private worlds of her family and household. Captured over the last seven years these images show the dynamic and dramatic relationship between mother and daughter, unflinchingly revealed, with a physical closeness […]
Elinor Carucci, PRIVATE 47, p. 30-33
Benyamin Reich
Benyamin Reich (A prayer for beauty)
I was raised in a Jewish Hassidic family, with eleven children, and attended religious schools and yeshivahs. My father served as a rabbi in ultra-orthodox congregations in Israel and abroad. As a teenager, I was attracted to art. I left the orthodox way of life and moved to the artistic world […]
Benyamin Reich, PRIVATE 47, p. 34-37
Dan Bronfeld
Dan Bronfeld (Poseidon)
This marvelous palace consists of wonderful sights of creatures such as dragons and flying doves, and the sounds of morning roosters and beach plant life. It is built with a variety of natural elements, and covered by the remains of glass, plastic and any other man-made objects the sea has given back to the shore […]
Dan Bronfeld, PRIVATE 47, p. 38-41
Stanislav Dvir
Stanislav Dvir (South Sudanese refugees)
From the year 2005 the state of Israel is meeting with massive immigration from east Africa. Most of the refugees and the infiltrators entering from the Egyptian border are searching for shelter and a better life. This report shows a glimpse of daily life of a small group of the South Sudanese […]
Stanislav Dvir, PRIVATE 47, p. 42-43
Abir Sultan
Abir Sultan (Ultra-orthodox Jewish struggle)
This series shows funny, serious, aggressive moments concerning the struggle by ultra-orthodox Jews to keep Jerusalem a Holy site. The main ambition of the new secular mayor, Nir Barkat, is to make Jerusalem an attractive and free city, to bring modern and young spirit to Jerusalem […]
Abir Sultan, PRIVATE 47, p. 44-47
Julia Komissaroff
Julia Komissaroff (Kitab al-Balad)
These photographs have been made during Ramadan. Ramadan is a fasting month and a holiday. Ramadan is also a time when the Muslims are to slow down from worldly affairs and focus on self-reformation, spiritual cleansing and enlightenment; this is to establish a link between themselves and Allah […]
Julia Komissaroff, PRIVATE 47, p. 48-51
Yonathan Weitzman
Yonathan Weitzman (Two populations face to face)
Every ray of hope for peace is lost in the blast of terrorist attacks and the roar from fighter planes. Over the years, Israelis and Palestinians have less fear of war than peace. To each side war represents the hope for definitive victory over the other. Peace means concessions and sacrifice to be made […]
Yonathan Weitzman, PRIVATE 47, p. 52-55
Harel Stanton
Harel Stanton (Pure Faith)
When I think of Pure Faith, the words that come to my mind are love, purity… For me, as someone who studies the religious ceremonies through the lens of the camera, every time I am amazed again to see that it is all the SAME people who are behind the uniform, costumes, dress, burka, kippah, etc […]
Harel Stanton, PRIVATE 47, p. 56-59
Felix Lupa
Felix Lupa (The life of the homeless – the dark side of society)
A whole population lives on the street, a small ‘people’ seeks a country: lone wolves, couples, childhood friends, fathers and sons, mothers whose children were taken away by the social authorities and given to be adopted, alcoholics, drug addicts, schizophrenics, refugees from mental institutes […]
Felix Lupa, PRIVATE 47, p. 60-63
Ahikam Seri
Ahikam Seri (Africans seek asylum)
More and more Africans seek asylum in Israel, risking mortal danger to cross the Egyptian border. They are smuggled over by local Bedouins and brave armed patrols and possible gunfire from the Egyptian border guards. These refugees come from African homelands such as Sudan, Eritrea […]
Ahikam Seri, PRIVATE 47, p. 64-67
Nitzan Hafner
Nitzan Hafner (Left behind)
The story of the Falashmura is a story about a dual tragedy. Families are torn between Israel and Ethiopia and face difficulties in their absorption into Israeli society due to cultural gaps. About 8,700 members of the community who are still in Gondar (northern Ethiopia) are persecuted and […]
Nitzan Hafner, PRIVATE 47, p. 68-73
Tomer Appelbaum
Tomer Appelbaum (Before-After-Before)
My work consists of the things I am obliged to do, which I try to do in the best possible way, through my eyes and my point of view. The second part of my work consists of my personal interests, places, people and events which I am drawn to. I was based in Jerusalem for three years and now live in Tel Aviv […]
Tomer Appelbaum, PRIVATE 47, p. 74-77
Gili Yaari
Gili Yaari (Land Work)
26 year old Israeli Shmulik and 40 year old Nazar from the Palestinian city of Tul Karm are working together in the fields of Hefer Valley. They are growing huge fields of wheat, sunflowers and chick-peas. Hefer Valley is located between the coastal Israeli city of Netanya and the Palestinian city of Tul-Karm […]
Gili Yaari, PRIVATE 47, p. 78-81
PRIVATE 47
ISRAEL
in this issue
Photographer(s): Abir Sultan, Ahikam Seri, Benyamin Reich, Dan Bronfeld, Eddie Gerald, Elinor Carucci, Felix Lupa, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Gili Yaari, Harel Stanton, Julia Komissaroff, Kobi Wolf, Nitzan Hafner, Stanislav Dvir, Tomer Appelbaum, Yaakov Israel, Yonathan Weitzman, YuvalTebol
Writer(s): Ami Steinitz, Dan Savery Raz, Dorit Weisman, E. M. Schorb, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Gilad Meiri, Raquel Chalfi, Tal Nitzán, Tammara Or Slilat
Tag(s) Israel, itinerant issues
Photographer(s): Abir Sultan, Ahikam Seri, Benyamin Reich, Dan Bronfeld, Eddie Gerald, Elinor Carucci, Felix Lupa, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Gili Yaari, Harel Stanton, Julia Komissaroff, Kobi Wolf, Nitzan Hafner, Stanislav Dvir, Tomer Appelbaum, Yaakov Israel, Yonathan Weitzman, YuvalTebol
Writer(s): Ami Steinitz, Dan Savery Raz, Dorit Weisman, E. M. Schorb, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Gilad Meiri, Raquel Chalfi, Tal Nitzán, Tammara Or Slilat
Tag(s) Israel, itinerant issues
