Gabi Ben-Avraham, 52, married with three children, works in a software company as an IT manager and lives in a quiet neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, the city which he grew up in, has never left and which is a part of him and his photographing. During the 1980’s, photographed using film cameras. Did not touch a camera for 20 years until he received a digital camera as a gift for his birthday from his wife 3 years ago. The rest is history…. During the last years took part in various courses regarding Street Photography and Photo Journalism.
Moto: “The Street is not a Studio”. Sometimes I stand and wait for things to converge – a cyclist, a dancer, a child – moving along.
Street Photography/Documentary is my favorite way of looking at the world.
My camera has become an integral part of me and I cannot imagine myself without it. Everywhere I go I take it with me thinking ‘maybe today will be my lucky day and I will take the photo of my life’. Via the camera lens I am constantly looking around me, searching for that ‘decisive’ moment that will never return, unless I catch it. When pushing the button, I try to make some sense, restore order to the chaotic scheme of things in the composition, tell the story behind the scene and frame a surrealistic moment. The components ‘speak’ with each other in a special dialogue, either by color (I prefer B&W, I add color only when it is meaningful), shape, or light. Capturing the elusive, special moment after which things will never be the same and making it eternal – that is my goal.
Forgotten, transparent people in urban surroundings are being granted their moment of grace. The shadows, fragile outlines, reflections within daily lives that are not noticed in the busy and thick urban landscape and sometimes are even crushed by it – these are precious to me. Those expressions and compositions are to be treasured before they are lost in time.
Some of my images have been exhibited as part of various exhibitions in Israel as well as few newspapers and photographic websites. Last summer, I made the “Social Protest” project with regard to the temporary tent city in Tel Aviv. A few months ago I made a series about people in Cuba.
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