For me, walking into a cemetery is like entering a library of sealed books which I will never be able to read. Each tombstone is a condensed silent energy of encapsulated emotions, memories and experiences that individual but also part of a collective emotional history. Sometimes the whole history of a town or even a nation can be revealed and re-lived in a trip to one cemetery.

The medium of photography tries to preserve and immortalize a unique moment in time. So are tombstones - traces of what cannot be retrieved, a human rebellion against disappearance and cessation, and attempt to transcend the temporary and the ephemeral.

According to the Jewish religion, each one dies twice – the first time is when he physically ceases to exist and the second time is when he/she ceases to exist in
the memory of the last remaining person.