1994 - 95

AN EXHIBITION OF THE ANGLO ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS 1995

The Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards were created in 1992 by artist and photographer Sandra Jacobs to encourage artistic and cultural contact between Israeli and British communities.

Each year photographers are selected by a panel of experienced artists, photographers and curators to work in each other's countries. The scheme is open to all, regardless of cultural, religious or racial background. The artists have an opportunity to discover a culture new them and to exhibit the results of their exploration, John Goto, one of this year's selection committee, says: "The scheme attempts to give an artist the time, money and encouragement to make new work"

This exhibition shows the work of this year's Award winners - two British and two Israeli.

Simon Watson / The Settlers

Watson's photographic story documents Israeli settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza and was made during a period when the settlers land was caught up in deals between Israel and the PLO. Focusing on those settlers who emigrated from the USA, Watson examines the way in which they have transplanted elements of their diaspora culture into their new settlements.

Ian Wiblin - Excavating the City

In a series of haunting black and white images of architecture and archaeology Wiblin reveals the atmosphere and history of Jerusalem.

Oren Eckhaus / Out of Love - Mixed Couples

Based In Tel-Aviv, Eckhaus came to London to photograph couples where just one partner was Jewish. His project looks at questions of intermarriage and assimilation, highlighting an issue particularly relevant to minority groups in Britain today.

Galit Eilat / Oxford. England

Eilat's exhibition represents the final stage of her work with a group of women students in Oxford. Responding to a letter of Invitation, the women worked with Eilat using photography to represent their own lives. Eilat then photographed the women's rooms and primed them onto large canvases, exhibiting the resulting work in Tel-Aviv. As the images were not fixed, they faded during the course of the exhibition, as memories fade with time. The exhibition In London will be a documentation of the whole project.