Jay L
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Location | Israel |
| Introduction | I photograph people - almost exclusively. I am interested in photographing people in two distinct states of being – when in the most public and in the most intimate places. I like to photograph strangers that are usually not aware of my existence and if they are, it is usually too late for them to "prepare" for the shot. I usually look for them in cities. Cities are where people gather. The streets, buildings and sites are only background. When I photograph, people are at once individual and universal somehow. The mystery of photography is evident whenever a resulting image, which I know is derived from reality, becomes something totally fictional for me through a process I do not understand. At the very other extreme, I use the camera to penetrate people's most intimate space. Through open dialog I try to learn who they are and gain access to what goes on in their head and through this process try to make the camera disappear. |