My father was born in the small village of Bucecea. It is located in Moldavia, a region in the northeastern part of Romania. In 1964, when he was just 12 years old, my father’s family migrated to Israel. In October of 2012, I was on location in Romania, taking upon myself the task of tracing my family’s roots. I was eager to find what has become of the childhood landscapes that my father still longs for after all those years. I can honestly say that going back felt like I was finally returning home from a long journey.
I am a strong believer in the ability of documentary photography to serve not just as a tool which represents the functionality of one structure or another but also as a means of expressing social views and political stance.
My perspective offers the examination of landscape and architecture against the backdrop of social and political conflicts.
According to this concept, the architectural design of the environment in which we live is not an act of innocent creativity which is detached from reality but an act affected by more complex processes and motives.
By documenting the landscape I'm acting as a cultural critic of the society in which I live. Often the criticism is very subtle and implicit, but it can be understood from the story as a whole because the pictures serve both as document and subjective interpretation.
My father was born in the small village of Bucecea. It is located in Moldavia, a region in the northeastern part of Romania.
In 1964, when he was just 12 years old, my father’s family migrated to Israel.
In October of 2012, I was on location in Romania, taking upon myself the complicated task of tracing my family’s roots.
I was eager to find out what has become of the childhood landscapes that my father still longs for so much after all those years.
I can honestly say that going back to those places truly felt like I was finally returning home from a very long journey.
This series of photographs is taken from a project which I've been working on for the past two years.
The name of the project is "Sites of Memory" and it composes a wide-scale body of work shot in different locations both in Romania and Israel.
In this project I photographed architecture and landscape in certain locations that hold a very personal meaning to me, so the question of my subjectivity to the images might arise.
Therefore, my goal was to create a body of work that serves as an expression of widespread processes far beyond my personal story.