honorable mention
Itay Levin israel
title
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Here in this work the images focus on preparations for the ceremony. Nothing is quite standing still. The soldiers are dressed in unrepresentative uniforms. They practice their steps again and again. And examine them in the same frame, above that stage.
On one of the days I took pictures, a soldier approached me and asked what I was doing. I explained to her and she asked while answering: "Why are you taking pictures of soldiers? Soldiers are not nice. "
The next day an officer approached me, he was concerned that his soldiers will not look good in the photos I took, because they were not wearing their representative uniform. In this moment I remembered the sentence that the soldier had told me the day before.
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entry description
The memorial day for the fallen soldiers of Israel and victims of terrorism is a ritual, held each year in the same format without gaps, but the number of fallen is changing. The ceremony is an end point and a starting point in a cycle of friction, violence, struggle and fighting. As if the ritual had come to keep this circle of loss and to justify that this cycle should be going on.Here in this work the images focus on preparations for the ceremony. Nothing is quite standing still. The soldiers are dressed in unrepresentative uniforms. They practice their steps again and again. And examine them in the same frame, above that stage.
On one of the days I took pictures, a soldier approached me and asked what I was doing. I explained to her and she asked while answering: "Why are you taking pictures of soldiers? Soldiers are not nice. "
The next day an officer approached me, he was concerned that his soldiers will not look good in the photos I took, because they were not wearing their representative uniform. In this moment I remembered the sentence that the soldier had told me the day before.
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
