Foto Friday – A Walk Down Nachalat Binyamin
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Every Tuesday and Friday, there’s a crafts fair on Tel Aviv’s Nachalat Binyamin Street.
There’s no end to the coverage about it, because it is a very good event that has managed to maintain high standards of quality for over a decade and a half — no mean feat, as so many other so-called crafts fairs start out in promising fashion, then sink quickly into a mire of cheap crap from India and China. But the TA municipality keeps close tabs the Nachalat Binyamin artisans and artists, many of whom staff their own booths.
Most visitors pay more attention to the products than the sellers, as is only natural when shopping. And that’s where the photographer’s eye comes in.
Photographer Jessica D. Korman, a recent new immigrant to Israel, took a stroll down Nachalat Binyamin and — aside from snapping shots of the wares for Tchochkes.com, where she is a regular contributor, she also took a look at what goes on around the booths.
Korman, who studied interior design, says she looks for architectural elements wherever she goes, “to present a different view of an object or event.”
“I like photographing everyday scenes,” Korman says, “always looking for a different angle or perspective to the mundane or even the ‘ugly’ side of things.”
A former picture editor for publications such as Scholastic, Star Magazine and Woman’s World Magazine, Korman now works as a Visual Communications Consultant in Jerusalem. “What I love about [photo editing] is that it is the marriage of written content with images. The proper choice of image will enable one’s work to have the greatest impact. Besides, what better job is there than getting to look at pictures all day?”
There’s inspiration everywhere. More of Korman’s work is available on her website, The F Stops Here.
Improv Everywhere
It all started in August 2001, a group of creative New Yorkers decided to bring joy to a city which had recently experienced it’s greatest tragedy of all time. They founded Improv Everywhere, a organization whose goal is to simply to “make scenes” in public. It’s where street theater meets public art meets entertainment. They’ve done some pretty quirky stuff such as a fake U2 concert on a NY rooftop, turning a subway car into a haunted house, and even conducting a musical in a mall food court (my personal favorite). Their most ambitious scene involved over 200 participants who simultaneously “froze” in the middle of Grand Central Station. The video of this event on YouTube has over 12 million views and has inspired many other groups around the world.
Including in Tel Aviv.
On July 11 a few dozen (sadly not hundreds) of Tel Avivites “froze” in the middle of a main public square at the end of the Carmel market simultaneously confusing and entertaining the myriad of shoppers, tourists and passersby.
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