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Tali Ben-Dor2 SPECIAL PROJECTS

Everyday Life in Morocco

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Tali Ben-Dor

Almost every moment in our life is an emotional one, yet there is that special

fraction of a second that attracts my attention and causes my finger click on the camera.In this special moment the exterior image connects with the emotion within me. Capturing the image, I perpetuate both the moment and the emotion with which it has connected. Later, when I examine the frames, I make up the story behind the shots. Sometimes I manage to have a conversation with my photographed people. They share with me their emotional moments, and that, in a way, makes me a partner.These are feelings that I will carry with me for a long time.

In this series of black & white

photos, I chose to photograph people in their environment or faces with strong expressions in somewhat mysterious circumstances. These are scenes from which one cannot turn one's head away without being captured by the expression, the concentration, the beauty and, at times, the agony. In most of my work, the expression or the situation takes the role of support and strength, whether it is a one person portrait or a group of people in the middle of any occurrence.

My favorite subject is street photography and craftsmen, and my focus is on people.In my travels all over the world, armed with my camera, I keep looking around for interesting and moving scenes.

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Sometimes all I need is a heightened perception of my surroundings. Then, I use my imagination.The camera taught me how to see things I didn't really see before. Furthermore, the camera allows me to communicate with strangers of all ages and gives me the legitimacy to do so.Most of my shots are presented to these people and are approved by them, not only in terms of their appearance, but also in the overall view of the picture and what it expresses.

I became an amateur photographer a few years ago, thanks to my companion who is a professional photographer. He taught me everything I know. He was the one who urged me to observe in a different way. He taught me to look beyond what I see, to search for a meaning to my pictures.Suddenly everything bursts out of me. Perhaps deep inside there was a latent urge to create and express myself.As the years passed I felt that I had reached the stage where I wanted to progress professionally. I became the student of a famous woman photographer in Israel, and she has, ever since, been my mentor and the curator of my exhibitions.I started to shoot with a Canon camera half frame. For almost three years now I have been using a Sony mirrorless camera, with a Sony Zeiss 24-70 zoom lens. I use raw files and shoot in Black and White, as I find it much more expressive and dramatic.

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Thanks to your hands Tali Ben-Dor

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Thanks to your hands Tali Ben-Dor

I like to look at people's palms. Those who tell me life stories. Working hands, rough, strong, steady. Those who know long days of labor. The hands of the last of the Mohicans who do not give up and continue with their daily labor, as they have done for many years. They carry rich professional experience on their shoulders and do not follow technological progress. "

My journey in the world of craftsmen. In a typological series I photographed, I described a prototype of the last of the manual workers: carpenters, padding, shoemakers, blacksmiths, metalworkers and more. Ancient crafts done almost exclusively by men, in a crowded work environment, crowded with tools and materials, all dressed in work clothes and all with strong, rough hands.I chose to photograph in black and white, to emphasize the belonging of these craftsmen to the past, the world that disappears.(craftsmen) – July 2017, Tel Aviv Artists House Copyrights To Tali Ben-Dor © All Rights Reserved

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