Foto Friday – Natural Beauty with Eddie Friedman

August 5, 2011 - 2:50 PM by Rachel Neiman

Eddie Friedman believes that photos are a vital documentation of our experiences, culture, history and most importantly our memories. That belief is deeply ingrained: after they survived the Holocaust, his parents were left with less than half a dozen photos. “That fact had a strong impact on my life,” he states.

Friedman has been taking photos since 1958, when he came to the USA from Czechoslovakia. “Freezing images in an artistic and expressive way, recording and preserving memories, telling a story and sharing it with others; all of these are a deep passion of mine. Beauty is all around me waiting to be captured. Translating this beauty into an image brings me much fulfillment and satisfaction.”

Friedman loves the land of Israel and says that he looks for ways to present both ancient and modern images. His website is an online gallery of Israel’s culture, religions and peoples. His nature photography is equally powerful…

Capturing cacti, thorns and thistles, long the metaphor for the Israeli spirit…

Finding the country’s beauty by looking just below the surface…

And doing what he loves best: sharing moments in time…

Friedman’s work was recently presented in People and Places – A Photographic trip Around the World, a group show sponsored by the AACI. More images can be found on his website where there’s much, much more to see.

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