About Me
I bought my first camera at a very young age, (an ancient camera without a light meter with a worn lens and focus arc), I used the camera to take photographs thatI later used for sketches for the paintings I drew at that time.
Later on I took portraits of children in kindergartens and with this money I bought a more serious camera and black and white lab equipment.
I especially enjoyed taking portraits of people in the markets, it served me as a hobby that passed my time with much happiness.
During my service in the army I was a Nahal soldier and the kibbutz I was in had a good black and white photo lab and I used it a lot.
After the military service, I was accepted to work as an assistant in Gavra’s studio and for two years
we worked together on industrial photographs of factories in Israel such as the Dead Sea Factories.
We shot portraits for stage actors and photos that were used as covers for records or book publishers.
Most of the works at that time were done in black and white. We would shoot during the day and develop the photos at night. We also enlisted as photographers in the Six Day War, it was a challenging and interesting period for me, I acquired a lot of knowledge in all fields that we dealt with.
After my time at Gebra Studio I felt the need to expand my knowledge in general art and photography and so thanks to a scholarship I received from the German government I was accepted to the school for photography and art in the city of Essen – Volkvang School of art with Professor Steinhardt.
The curriculum dealt more with the artistic side of photography and it was for me a completion of knowledge that I lacked.
Later I moved to Hamburg and I was an assistant in the studio of the photographer F/C Gundlach. One of the largest and most important photographers in Europe.
For about a year and a half I was his assistant and for me it was a photography paradise in its fulfillment.
F/C Gundlach would almost create paintings with his camera and he had an amazing eye to composition,colors and his mastery of techniques and photography equipment were very high.
After the study period I returned to Israel and opened an independent studio and a large part of my work was in the field of High-tech, medicine and science. I accompanied the researches of “Teva” , a pharmaceutical company and shot for their research which was presented around the world. Through them I came to the “Sigma Global” company that sits in St. Louis and I shot picture for their booklets explaining their products and research, a booklet that has been distributed globally and printed for millions of copies.
I also worked for the Weizmann Institute of Science and was sent to shoot many different researches around the world including the particle accelerator in Sarn.
For several years I also photographed for the “Technion” in Haifa and their research, and other hi-tech and industrial companies in Israel and around the world.
Today, at the age of 78, I retired from professional photography, but I did not retire from photography, on the contrary, in the past 10 years I’ve been working on photo series that I create and shoot. Like a series I call – Paradise of Fools that showcases my interpretation of Bible stories from the likes of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, their expulsion from Eden, photographs of the period of King David, King Solomon and his wives or the vision of the dry bones of the prophet Ezekiel and at the end of the destruction of Jerusalem. The series has 20 photographs, and is one of many photo series that I shot
My fascination with photography and camera art has lasted all my professional life.
It began when I was accepted as an assistant at Studio Gavra in Tel Aviv in the 1960s. At the time Gavra was the leading photography studio in Israel and later became the country’s leading photography school.
With a basic know-how of technique, I then moved to Essen, Germany – studying art and photography with Professor Steinhardt at the Folkwang School of Art.
Upon graduation, I started work as an assistant at the F.C Gundlach Studio in Hamburg. Franz Christian Gundlach was one of Germany’s foremost fashion photographers of his day.
Upon returning to Israel in 1971, I set up a studio specializing in advertising and image perception photography. I undertook assignments for the country’s top high-tech companies, the Weizmann Institute, the Technion, major hospitals and many other institutions.
Recently I resumed my work as an Art Photographer, creating exhibitions at my own initiative. They have great interest for curators and those curating photo exhibitions.