Vardi Kahana photograph
צילום: ורדי כהנא
Israeli photo festival coming soon
First-of-its-kind exhibition to open October 3 in Tel Aviv's Station complex in Neve Tzedek to works by some 150 photographers, curators and video artists
October 3 will mark the opening of the first Israeli photo festival at the Station complex in Tel Aviv's Neve Tzedek neighborhood, in which some 150 photographers, curators and video artists will present hundreds of works from the world of photography. The festival will close on October 8.
Photographers Eldad Rafaeli and Eyal Landseman will serve as curators and artistic directors, and photographers on exhibit will include Dganit Berest, Vardi Kahana, Adi Nes, Barry Friedlander and more.
Uriel Sinai photograph
According to Rafaeli and Landseman: "In the festival, we wish to refresh and sharpen the dialogue between the photographers and their works and the public, and between the photographers and themselves, thus creating a diverse community that is in constant professional, critical and relevant dialogue.
"To this end, we have chosen to present dozens of older veteran and familiar photographers alongside the younger ones at the start of their road' some of them coming from the center of the conventional art world, and some of them coming from the outside."
Angelika Sher photograph to be on display
The artistic directors added, "Going out into the public sphere, into the unique qualities of the Station complex, pulls photography out from the walls of the gallery, takes it out of its familiar context of magazine pages, and gives it direct and diverse access to the wide public."
During the festival, photographs will be on display in the complex's various buildings, while the open area will host group exhibitions, individual displays, presentations on the big screen, photography workshops for children, led by the Open Museum of Photography at Tel Hai, and more.
