Gilad Benari

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Drawing on paper (ballpoint pen). I love Gilad's photos.
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Gilad Benari is an amazing photographer and poet. With his great pictures, he shows us the world in a different and beautiful way. He is the person who made me start taking photos.

(Warm thanks to Gilad for featuring this in his journal...)

Gilad says about his work: "I love to vary my experience in photography. I believe that the real joy in photography is in the trivial, in small things"

Gilad comes from Israel (Tel Aviv). The good thing with many of his photos is that they show another side of this country, often criticized because of it's offensive policy towards Palestine.

He explains: "Israel suffers an image of being a desert land, or simply a war zone, when showing it all over the world news. Being a photographer and a writer, I have a chance to show otherwise."


Narcissus, Photographer

A poem by Erica Jong

Mirror-mad,
he photographed reflections:
sunstorms in puddles,
cities in canals,

double portraits framed
in sunglasses,
the fat phantoms who dance
on the flanks of cars.

Nothing caught his eye
unless it bent
or glistered
over something else.

He trapped clouds in bottles
the way kids
trap grasshoppers.
Then one misty day

he was stopped
by the windshield.
Behind him,
an avenue of trees,

before him,
the mirror of that scene.
He seemed to enter
what, in fact, he left.

(The poem appeared on [link])