Dancers !

Best of all I like to photograph dancers.

They can do everything, nothing is too difficult for them, their movement is delightful, their body is great (even if it is not perfect sizes) and their spirit is free.

This group of dancers from Studio Naim, I shot a few years back for a hi-tech company, to express the values of easy flow of their machinery.

They jumped and floated in the air for hours. Especially Yuval ,the guy in the foreground .

  A most powerful engine.

 The art director is the talented Peleg Michaeli

 Recently I have worked with the fabulous dancer , Renana Raz , for the cool fashion designers Belinky . 

This is a short sneak peek to the shoot 

I will post more soon .
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Spring in Tel Aviv

I can't recall such a spring , like this year's - ever .

Flowers everywhere .

This is how my car was waiting for me this morning .

David Reeb

David Reeb in his studio in Tel -Aviv

You can see David Reeb's  wonderful work on  David Reeb's site

The Israelis

This is one of the first photographic projects in which I have participated .

The cover 

The train station - Lod

55 photographers were assembled for one day  to photograph A day in the life of Israel .
What a naive thought !
Turned out to be really interesting .

Tel Aviv Roof

I chose to cover some areas in central Tel Aviv and the train station of Lod, as well.

My Husband and our cat on our balcony , early morning.

Alenby st . Tel Aviv

At the time I thought that the project was fun to do but didn't give it much importance.

I love these car covers. So Surreal.

Opposite the Dizengof center , Tel Aviv

With the perspective of time I see what an interesting and important document we have created .

Bialik circus

Cleaning carpets,Tel Aviv

Hayarden st. Tel Aviv

The grocer's ,near my house

Resting , afternoon. Tel Aviv

The falling down buildings of Hayarkon st.

The book was published by the prestigious Abrams publishing house and is still available on Amazon.

Lost on the Highway

The very interesting February issue of Lady Globes is out today ,with my new fashion advertorial in it.

We have shot Biata with the lovely new CT Lexus, lost on a highway , like the heroins of Hitchcock.

  After the shoot I managed to take a few expressive portraits of Biata ,in the same atmosphere ,to complete the story .

And in the magazine :

Some behind the scene frames from a recent shoot

Hitchcock atmosphere b&w

Showing the model what to do

Light reading is extra important , even when working digital!

Amazing location

Sylvester

From a fashion editorial I've shot for Lady Globes .

Penthouse and Pavement

My second love after photographing people is photographing  buildings .

 Buildings have always been an inspiration.

I like looking at buildings and imagining  the different lives people lead in them.

I like the shapes they create in space :

40's Retro shoot for Maariv on the stairs of Independence Park , TLV

And the stories they tell :

Light bubble - fashion for 42 Degrees

Sometimes I see a building and it drives me to create a story I can photograph in it ,around it.

Like this building in Nveh Tzedek that was being renovated and reminded me of a famous photograph of Horst 

Which inspired us to create a photograph with dancers inspiration :

Dancers in Nveh Zedek - Hadashot magazine

We did not know then that this building site is going to turn into the Suzanne Dallal center for dance :)

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Or the Ankori school on Pinsker St. which has just been newly painted and reminded me of the stairs in Alice in Wonderland ,hence the hats,cards and bottles 

Fashion , Hadashot

This photograph was later chosen for an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum , and this is taken from the catalog :

One of my photographs from the exhibition A Temporary Documentation ,at the Tel Aviv museum

The catalog of the exhibition - A Temporary Documentation

Sometimes it works the other way around - I have an image in my head and I go looking for a suitable location .

Like in this coming photograph I did on the top of a high rising building overlooking other tall buildings 

Illustration for Extra magazine

My love for buildings is combined with my musical tastes : A great influence has always been Talking Heads' music 

Talking Heads often sing about cities ,buildings and homes... combined with my personal observations it  led me to create this photograph based on a falling down house in Ben Yehuda st. and a musician's life

Dana Friman for "AT" magazine

Another building , the IBM building ,inspired this photograph , which I secretly call - my Penthouse & Pavement period :)

It has  also appeared in a beautiful book dedicated to

Tel -Aviv : Hot City , edited by Ronit Shany

Fashion for Hadashot in the book Hot City

My very recent" building inspiration" led to creating a Templar style fashion shoot

I have been invited to see Sharona , a new building project 

And seing these photographs from the 18th century inspired me to create this fashion editorial for Shamenet