Serial Landscapes is a travelogue exploring the ambiguous threshold and liminal condition of `betwixt and between' and the concept of transition in time and space, moving from one point to another, from one place to another, passage to something else.

(No Through) Roads

(Obscure) Landscapes

Cities (of the Dead)

Promised Lands (2004-2006)

“The Promised Land” is a term I absorbed in my childhood, being a son of parents who returned from the Diaspora to start a new life in Israel. Later, through my explorations as a photographer and traveler, I discovered that each one of us has a “Promised Land” of his own or rather a collection of “Promised Lands”. These comprise encapsulated dreams, hopes and memories which form part of the psychological and mythical life of our imagination and aspiration.

Cannan

As a child growing up in Israel, bible lessons took a major part of my primary school studies. The heroic stories captured my imagination and seemed like powerful fairy-tales. I remember daydreaming of the ancient Israelites escaping Egypt and wandering the desert for forty years in search Canaan, God's Promised Land.

America

17 years after I first landed at JFK airport to visit my family, who had immigrated to the US, I am standing in midtown east Manhattan watching the sunrise over Brooklyn and Queens. They all followed the American Dream in search of a better life, lived in Brooklyn, their new "Promised Land", and worked in a locksmith shop in Queens.

Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath in London is a known site for gay cruising activity. It is a space of promised pleasure, excitement and maybe even love. As in any other "Promised Land" you have pilgrims, wandering around the woods, seeking for the fulfillment of the promise, which hides somewhere between the dark woods and the peoples’ minds. Most of the time this ends in disillusion and the promise remains a promise…

The confused and bewildering macho/militant versus homoerotic feeling in revolutionary Cuba evoked my own experience and past memories of growing up in a young Israel, macho and militarist.

Fragments of Life (Tel Aviv, 2000-2003 )

In a series of staged images I lead the viewer into my world of memories, conflicts and trapped emotions. I recreated and reinvented fragments of my own life as an adolescent discovering his sexuality, growing up in a non-tolerant conservative society.