Ramot Polin, by Architect Zvi Hecker, is a unique project located in an ultra orthodox jewish neiberhood Ramot, north Jerusalem. The project was built after the six days war in an attempt to settle Jerusalem in the occupied territories while trying to create new forms of communal housing that would be pointed out of the common housing project of that time in Israel. The photographic work deals with the connection between the inside and the outside and the way people deal with that kind of unique and unusual architecture. At the same time looking at ultra orthodox Jewish houses from the inside and how they choose to design it. In passing years, tenants have made changes in the structure of the original apartment trying to get around the inconvenient structure.
My photography is about personal space, living space and surroundings of mine and those around me. I deal with architecture, interiors, the way people choose to live both in my professional and personal work.
Observation, contemplation, as well as dealing with natural light are an integral part of my work.
The photographic action that I use derives from traditional, direct photography, using a tripod that requires a long observation of a place and attention to details and presence.
The combination of the subject and the work method have led my work to earn depth of color, shape and light, profoundly relates to values i want to express such as simplicity, delicacy and cleanness inside the image.
I pay attention to the movement of the sun and the flow of the wind.
