Foto Friday – Reli Avrahami’s “Diary”

October 29, 2009 - 11:44 PM by Rachel Neiman · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, Foto Friday, General, Israeliness, Profiles, Travel 

Beer Sheva-born Reli Avrahami is one of Israel’s premiere magazine photographers. A new exhibition of her work, “Diary”, will open next week at the Hadassah College in Jerusalem, where she once studied and is now a lecturer.

Avrahami has worked as a freelance portrait photographer since 1986, shooting celebrities, artists and politicians for Israel’s main newspapers and weekend supplements including “Maariv”, “Yediot Aharonot” and “Haaretz” where she is best known for her long-running series of Israeli family portraits.

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In “Diary”, Avrahami invites viewers to look in on three generations of her own family: celebrations and tragedies, weddings and funerals, everyday life and unique occasions.

Her daughter – Botticelli curls cascading down her shoulders – en route to a Scout trip…

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…the morning of her son’s induction into the IDF…

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…her mother, fast asleep in a Netherlands zimmer motel…

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or a “Girls Night In” with her sisters and mother.
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“Diary” opens at 6:00pm, November 5, 2009 at the Hadassah College, 37 HaNeviim Street, Jerusalem.

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Adam Adama

June 14, 2009 - 4:06 PM by Jessica · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, General, History and Culture, design 

I’ve always admired the street exhibits that seem to proliferate in Tel Aviv, with sculptures and prints placed along the tree-lined boulevards of Rothschild and Chen.

image0015Now we can boast something similar in Jerusalem, with the Adam Adama exhibit of photographs by students from various Jerusalem schools, both Jewish and Arab, portraying their vision of Jerusalem.

image0016Sponsored by Hadassah College, the municipality and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the photographs are hanging along the pedestrian walkways of Schatz and Bezalel (named for the school, which is returning downtown from Mount Scopus) Streets in downtown Jerusalem. These car-less streets have been recently refurbished with cobblestone pavements and benches for easy sitting and viewing, and both Schatz and Bezalal boast two good cafes, Noni and Cafe Bezalel, so you can sip a hafuch, and enjoy some art in the shade.

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