New Zealand with a pocket camera

לפני חמש שנים נסענו לניו זילנד .
הייתי בדיוק בתקופה מאוד עמוסה בעבודה כך שממש לפני שיצאתי מהסטודיו לארוז הוצאתי מהמקרר את כל הסרטים הישנים שהיו "תקועים" בו ,כי כבר עברתי לדיגטאלית , הוספתי מצלמה פוקט קטנה והחלטתי שזו המצלמה שתלווה אותי במסע
צילמתי 22 סרטים , מכל הבא ליד . היו לי במקרר סרטי שקופיות 100 , 200 ,400 וגם קצת שחור לבן .
פיתחתי הכל כשחזרתי לת"א ,במכה אחת , כנגטיב .
הפיתוח הזה ,שנקרא "קרוס" , נתן לכל הצילומים גריין מודגש ואופי ציורי .
מאוחר יותר יצרתי משילוב כמה צילומים קולאז'ים , יחד עם יוסי גולדברג מ"אלמנטו" , ומכרנו אותם בחנות .
אפשר לראות חלק מהקולאז'ים באתר שלי  .
http://www.miridavidovitz.com/store.html
בדרך חזרה לישראל עצרנו לכמה ימים בהונג קונג , שהיא ממש ההפך מניו זילנד ,שיא העירוניות . צילמתי גם שם .בעיקר גורדי שחקים .

Five years ago we went to New Zealand.
I was very busy at work so just before I left the studio I took out of the fridge packs all those old films that were "stuck" in it, because I've been shooting  digital already . 

 I added a small pocket camera and I decided that this camera will accompany me in the journey.
I shot 22 films, whatever comes to hand. I had in the fridge slide films 100, 200, 400 and some black and white.
I developed all when I came to back  Tel Aviv, in one shot,C41.
This development, called "Cross", gave all the photographs  bold Grain and picturesque nature.
Later I made collages combining several images, along with Yossi Goldberg from Elemento , and sold them in the store.
You can see some of my collages on my site
http://www.miridavidovitz.com/store.html
We stopped on the way back to Israel for a few days in Hong Kong, which is just opposite from New Zealand, top urban

 . I shot there as well. 

  Especially skyscrapers.

Landscape on Canvas

Today we hung my first work of a series of ten in the furniture design shop "Elemento" in Tel-Aviv.

The series grew out of a meeting I had with the owner of Elemento,Yossi Goldberg.
Yossi was once an art director and we worked on many projects with different advertising agencies. A few years ago he opened Elemento, a design shop of world class standard.

Together we decided on the correct format for his clients and the correct image/images and size to best show off my work.

We poured over my substantial archives of images taken over the last few years in many places around the world where nature is the subject and light fills up the space between.

He was enthralled by the options and we decided on combining in this first set conflicting images of nature and city life.

I started to work on collages of work I have from my last trip to New Zealand and Hong kong interspersed with images of Tel Aviv at night.

All the images were photographed in slide format,developed as negative and then scanned to a digital format .This treatment imparts to the images grain,high contrast and adds a monochromatic texture as of a painting..

Then many hours of aligning one image beside or under another ,playing with the size of each image relative to its neighbor until I got to the final results which can be seen in a catalog at Elemento.

These prints are on canvas and I used the professional services of two printers in order to decide on the final print.

The actual size of these first prints are 230cms on 85cms,and can be seen at Elemento , Rothschild Blvd 119,Tel Aviv.

All the prints are of a limited edition of 20 prints per scene.