Preface:

“Man is molded by the landscape of his homeland,” wrote poet Shaul Tchernochovski. In Israel, the landscape is laden with meaning, recounting a rich history from biblical times to the present. Every mountain, field, river or ruin, tells the story of our ancestors and forefathers who cultivated this earth, tending to flocks, crops and trade in the era of judges and kings; the schisms, through war, exile and return to the land of Israel in the age of Zionism, living out the prophesy depicted by the Bible.
Indeed man is molded by his homeland and his homeland is not merely of geographical space and borders. Today, with modern technology, a bird’s eye view enables us to take flight from political realities to form new perspectives using the dimensions of time and space. We can observe the familiar landscapes anew. They unfold before our eyes in all their beauty, revealing to us all their secrets. The landscape links the past and the future in a never-ending tale.

French philosopher Roland Barthes wrote,

“ When I look at those landscapes of which I am particularly fond, it’s as if I’ve already been there or I’m going to be there. Freud said of the mother’s body that ‘there is nowhere else that you can say with such certainty that you’ve already been there’. The same is true of a landscape (chosen with passion). ”

Photography not only documents time and space - it focuses the gaze on aesthetic compositions concealed in the landscape which the photographer’s sensitive eye reveals to us. In this way, the landscape is created anew for us as a work of art.