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Fine Art Photography Magazine

June 2015#9

CULTURE

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Dafna was born in Jerusalem in 1975 and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a known figure in the Israeli art world as a lecturer, curator and appraiser of art and collectibles.Also a Wordpress Expert for blog sites, Corporate Sites & Woo Commerce Sites (Active online stores). With many years of experience in Google Analytic, Google Adwords and PPC. Dafna has lectured at academies of visual art and design with years of experience working in advertising and media. Her education started at Technion University studying interior design followed by general design studies with the artist Ilana Goor. She later obtained a diploma in curatorial studies and art appraisals. In the beginning of her career she worked as a graphic designer in various multimedia companies such as Ness Technologies, Casdim International Systems, along with several major advertising agencies in Israel. In 1998 she began teaching at the Avni Institute of Art and as a lecturer in visual communication at Bezalel Academy of Art and at Magen the Religious College of Art and Design. Dafna has authored a number of books for Israeli academic institutes including John Bryce College. She also

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8/ About Cultural Photography

20/ Oded Wagenstein- Nomadic Project

38/ Magdalena Bagrianow - The Heart Of India

52/ Michal Fattal- Humanity

68/ Jimmy Nelson - Before They Pass Away

84/ Gili Yaari- Purim Celebrations In Jerusalem

94/ Gili Yaari- Tel-Aviv Gay Pride Parade

102/ Roie Galitz- The Children Of Uganda

122/ Amy Kanka- Japan

138/ An Interview With Mark Edward Harris

162/ Michal Solarski- Hungarian Sea

178/ Pande Heryana- Love Around The World

190/ Asher Gibel- Black And White Tour Of Old Tel Aviv, 1970

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Cultural Photography


Cultural Photography

Jimmy Nelson © All rights reserved. Altantsogts. Bayan Olgii, Mongolia, 2011


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"Cultural Photography" is the art of taking photos for the purpose of telling about a people or a culture. The photographs may be as simple as portraits of faces, or as common as street scenes, or as complex as the capturing of scenes that illustrate social relationships.

Nothing about these kinds of images is new, of course. The cave paintings in Spain show us that this was done at the dawn of humanity. What is new and different today is the proliferation of inexpensive cameras that allow everyone easily to engage in "cultural photography" ...and, indeed, everyone who uses their mobile phone to take pictures is a cultural photographer.

Making worth while cultural photographs is often not as simple as simply clicking the shutter, however. It requires a curiosity to see what is significant in the world around us, and the discipline to photographically document it. It requires thoughtful selection of what is to be photographed.

Photography offers both limitations and opportunities when we attempt to use it as a tool for documentation. While photography would seem to be the most "realistic" way of capturing the world around us, this is not necessarily true. As the noted photographer Richard Avedon once observed, "All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." Making cultural photographs is not as simple as simply clicking the shutter of the camera, however. It requires a curiosity to see what is significant in

the world around us, and the discipline to photographically document it. It requires thoughtful selection.Photography offers both limitations and opportunities when we attempt to use it as a tool for documentation. While photography would seem to be the most "realistic" way of capturing of the world around us, this is not necessarily true.


Our "interpretation" of what we are seeing, based on the context in which we are seeing it, becomes a major part of what we see. A photograph is just a selection from that overall scene. Once this selection has become a photograph it is completely isolated from the overall context in which it originally existed.

Isolating this selection in our photograph, we transform this part of the scene that was photographed. What was simply part of a larger scene now becomes a whole scene in itself. And it now exists altogether separately from any clues of interpretation except for clues that the photographer provides in the photo.

Jimmy Nelson © All rights reserved. Sarbore. Serengeti. Tanzania, 2010


This process of selection is the true art of photography. The photograph itself becomes something new and distinct from what it was in its original context. Now, instead of interpretation coming from the eyes of the live viewer, clues to interpretation are now provided by the photographer through the use of framing, lighting, focus, and other camera techniques. The photograph, although only a selected part of a total scene, may nevertheless convey an story or message that is bigger than than the photograph itself. Dorothea Lange, whose photos told the story of the Great Depression in ways that no book of statistics could have done, once made this observations: "While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."

Cultural photography may happen consciously or unconsciously. For the intentional cultural photographer, the photos will have documentary and educational value ...but having educational value need not make the photos less enjoyable. Indeed, the National Geographic has been simultaneously entertaining and educating its readers for more than a hundred years with quality cultural photography.

Jimmy Nelson © All rights reserved. Dele, Lale, Korcho Village,Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2011


ODED WAGENSTEINNomadic project


ABOUT ODED WAGENSTEIN

Oded Wagenstein is a Cultures photographer. He his regular contributor to the National Geographic Magazine, Getty images and the National Geographic Traveler Magazine. He is the Author of bestselling Photography Ebooks and an inspirational lecturer. When not on assignment around the world, he is the Coo of Phototeva, which is Israel's largest photography trips brand.

ABOUT THE NOMADIC PROJECT

In recent years, I dealt much a question of displacement and documented migratory communities around the world.In this work, you will find the Sea Gypsies living in Karbi, in Southern Thailand and the Kyrgyz nomads of central Kyrgyzstan

Sea GypsiesKarbi, Southern Thailand

Oded Wagenstein © All rights reserved.


In my work, I am on the search for the most basic human experiences. I do not wish to show the "different", the "bizarre" or the "exotic". I try to find the most remote places, places in which finding the exotic is very easy, and I try to show my viewers that we are all the same. That, for example, being a mom in NYC is very similar to being a mom in India. Life circumstances are different of course. But, on the most basic level of the human experience we have, we are all the same.In my work, I wish to show the person's soul and not only his Cloths. Therefore do not shoot from a long distance. Being able to speak with the person and to hear his or her story is much more important to me than making the image.

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Kyrgyz Nomads Of Central Kyrgyzstan


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