I commenced my photography studies nearly five years ago. After many years of intensive work in the field of hoteliery in highly demanding positions of marketing and management, I decided to halt everything. I blew off the dust from an old camera I had and signed up for photography studies. Already in the second lesion I realized that I was totally infatuated without fully realizing the extent of my new passion.
I can truly divide my life into two – before and after photography entered my life.
I ceaselessly examined myself and my style. I started with nature and bird photography in my proximate environs as I live near a nature reservation which hosts thousands of migrating cranes every year. Photographing there during winter time was such a mystical experience!
But I felt that I was still searching, that I was not quite there yet until I signed up for a course in Tel Aviv with one of the best street photographers in Israel. It was then that I realized that the street is my place – the fast tempo of the street combined with the different cultures intrigued me.
I arrived at locales and encountered cultures which up to that point I was not familiar with: the Sufis, the Circassians, the Bedouins, the Ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Samaritans and the Christian Muslims. My experiences and close encounters with them were extremely powerful and significant for me.
I moved on to travels around the world, and in the last two years I have been traveling in the footsteps of the Gypsies. I commenced in India and continued to Romania, and the deeper I delve into this subject the more fascinated I become.
My street photography style has also changed over time, I took the telephoto lens off the shelf and remained solely with a wide lens and frame.
Currently I am working on several projects and am filled with excitement from the process and the progress.