1996-1997

ANGLO ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS EXHIBITION 1996 BRITISH AND ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHERS' PERSONAL VIEWS OF EACH OTHERS' COMMUNITIES

Double Exposure

The Awards scheme was created in 1992 to promote artistic and cultural communications between Britain and Israel through photography. The scheme is open to all regardless of cultural, racial or religious background, giving the participants an opportunity to discover a culture new to them and to exhibit the results of their explorations both in Britain and in Israel. The exhibition will tour to the Cambridge Darkroom Gallery from 8 February - 9 March 1997. The 1996 selection committee included John Goto, photographer, Frank Dabba Smith, Rabbi and photographer, Verdi Yahooda, photographer, Ruth Charity, Exhibitions Organiser, Photographers' Gallery and Sandra Jacobs, photographer and Trustee, Anglo Israeli Awards

Margarita Gluzberg:

Margarita'a own personal experience of leaving Russia with her family in 1979, has given her a fascination with the politics of the inanimate object - "how human identity can be represented by the things a person treasures". Accordingly, in Israel she has visited the homes of immigrants to photograph prized possessions brought from their country of origin.

Caroline Molloy:

Caroline's work continues previous concerns about what characteristics mark us out both as individuals and as a member of a group. She has chosen to explore the issue of women within the Israeli Army using two different groups of female soldiers. Although the work arising from each group has the same roots and deals with the same issues, each has developed its own identity.

Sigal Avni:

Sigal's work focusses on the issues of immigration and assimilation within the Israeli community in London. By photographing members of a number of Israeli families who have made their homes here, Sigal confronts ideas about relationships, both within the families themselves, and between the families and their new environment.

Avi Pitchon:

Avi's work for the Award seeks to combine two of his concerns - music and photography. Entitled "Expeditions to Exiled Kingdoms", he has created a portrait of two contrasting 'indie' bands working in Britain.

Ilya Rabinovich:

For an ongoing project, "Work Coordinated in Advance", Ilya photographs the interiors of buildings, linked by similiarity of use. In England, Ilya has photographed social, cultural and educational institutions of the London Jewish community, questioning the nature and function of places, and exploring the influences of the culture and traditions upon the community, as seen from inside their own 'institutions'.

Nitsan Tsabari:

Nitsan's project for the Award involves the participation of 15 members of the Jewish community in London. Reversing the usual anthropological process of research, he asked the subjects of his enquiries to document places which for them have a particular resonance. From their images he has built up a multi-facetted collage.