Face to Face / Artists House Kfar Saba

הצילומים באדיבות Artists House Kfar Saba

Positive is a voluntary photography club, founded in Kfar Saba in 2009. The members' activity ends every year with an art photography exhibition.
This year 31 members present under the direction and curators of Iris Nesher.

A portrait photograph is an X-ray of the mind, a photograph of an inner world, not necessarily of an outer world. Photographers express themselves through the lens of the camera, drawing with light, just as a writer writes in words his experience.

When we choose to photograph someone, we actually want to get to know him more closely, said American portrait photographer Annie Leibowitz, but in fact when looking at portrait photographs one can learn no less about the photographer's soul than the person being photographed.

Sculptor Auguste Rodin said: The face is a mirror to the soul but in practice every muscle in the body, every hand movement, every shoulder lift, every angle of the head - express emotion.

In the face-to-face exhibition, the photographers were asked to tell a story, to get to know a character in their lives, whether they were photographing themselves, family members, friends, people who were willing to share intimate moments with them. The camera itself has no emotion, and no opinion, the interesting occurrence is between the two people between the two sides of the lens. The role of portrait photography is to explain, to clarify and interpret human beings for themselves, and by watching the exhibition to learn about ourselves as well.

Iris Eagle