honorable mention
Itay Levin israel
title
FROM PLEASURE TO SUFFER
Job insecurity and lack of political development had brought the “Jewish Spring” Summer 2011 protests known as the social justice protests – to become a failure. The creativity and technological innovation is no more part of the Israeli political lobby. Israel creativity is mainly in the technological, defense industry / military capabilities.
The Israeli is busy replacing costumes without thinking of the future or act for change. I choose to bring myself in front of my camera, froze and compressed. A metaphor of a status of the public. In front of the camera, I explore my inner feelings with the costumes. Some costumes are without a declaration of intent and others are part of the materialism world, the seek for achievements. Some costumes forced by the state, which seeks to serve obediently militant values.
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entry description
Life in Israel are controversial – the language itself become militant and it has become a norm. Behind the language it translated to violence behavior. Not to say a violence culture. A culture of occupation: career occupation, women occupation, materialism occupation. All with the same breath of embracing pluralism.Job insecurity and lack of political development had brought the “Jewish Spring” Summer 2011 protests known as the social justice protests – to become a failure. The creativity and technological innovation is no more part of the Israeli political lobby. Israel creativity is mainly in the technological, defense industry / military capabilities.
The Israeli is busy replacing costumes without thinking of the future or act for change. I choose to bring myself in front of my camera, froze and compressed. A metaphor of a status of the public. In front of the camera, I explore my inner feelings with the costumes. Some costumes are without a declaration of intent and others are part of the materialism world, the seek for achievements. Some costumes forced by the state, which seeks to serve obediently militant values.
about the photographer
I was born in 1975 in Israel. Graduated with honors visual communication design in Tel Aviv and Social Sciences at the Open University of Israel. Over the years I used to paint, I was influenced from Surrealism, Cubism, Architecture and Industrial music. I always followed the geometrical form and its interaction with the environment. At the last eight years I worked as a user experience designer, visual designer and user research at the mobile technological realm. As part of my current work I am creating visual and interaction designs to meet the needs and habits of my users. For me the camera is a tool to imprint ideas, reviews or manifests; related to personality and inner feelings affected from my daily life. My creative process is not always distinct, sometimes is coincidental and sometimes follows a processes and research. I am seeking for a systematic and mechanical way to transfer a concept, sequence repetition of images emphasize the message and the experience. The camera freezes the inanimate object, emphasize any wrinkle or an aesthetic “mistake”. The inanimate object involve with my feelings, emotions and ideas; not less than a living body. The human body undergoes erosion during his life and in parallel it creates erosion on its individual and global environment. I follow this weathering, over time; trying to use the camera to document this process through materials and objects.back to gallery