Our 2011 selections

When we started to act as a collective we set a goal to use photography as an instrument to create awareness on topics that we, as people who live in this time and place, aspire to change socially or politically. We believe in the power of people to create change in their own society, therefore we wish to directly address indivi-duals and groups with our work. While we do work with mainstream media, they may avoid certain subjects for political or commercial reasons, and so we find it important to create alternative media channels that reach wide publics in more independent, unfiltered, and direct ways.The use of city walls as a platform to exhibit our work generated from this agenda. In Israel, as in other places around the world, it seems that what isn’t shown in the mainstream media does not exist; therefore, a need for public debate does not exist. By hanging photographs   on city walls we try to break this cycle by displaying images that both the media and the public ...