Alon Koppel 'Ruins, Belt Shean'
Drawer 3- Ruins, Beit Shean. Photograph (ink jet print), 13” x 13”, 2019.
Artist Statement
The photographs submitted here are part of a series currently titled, Ruined Ruins. These images reflect on my interest in photographing places where some tension–ecological, political, psychological–is subtly evident. My observation often acts as a reflection on humanity’s activity that often goes unnoticed. This is especially true when I photograph in my homeland of Israel, where antiquities, politics, conflict and ecological disregard often intersect and influence one another. While I consider these to be part of my landscape photography practice, they reflect on a deeper interest in subjects that most people will walk or drive by without care or notice. For this series I worked with a medium-format film camera.
Artist Bio
Born in Israel in 1971 and currently residing in the village of Catskill, New York, where I continue to photograph my surroundings as I have for most of my life. After a career in design I have returned to photography as my main passion and focus of creativity. This time, through my experience as a designer, I am more able to bring a rigorous methodology and project-based approach to photography than I previously could and, paradoxically, with it more freedom to explore. For some projects I use a large-format film camera and for others a digital camera, feeling free to use whatever makes sense for each project. My work runs the gamut from a re-photography project of historical stereoscopy made in Palestine in the 1900s to photographing a series of landscapes in a dualistic view of 180 degrees and exploring the subjective value of each scene in the resulting diptychs.
Drawer 3- Ruins, Beit Shean. Photograph (ink jet print), 13” x 13”, 2019.
Artist Statement
The photographs submitted here are part of a series currently titled, Ruined Ruins. These images reflect on my interest in photographing places where some tension–ecological, political, psychological–is subtly evident. My observation often acts as a reflection on humanity’s activity that often goes unnoticed. This is especially true when I photograph in my homeland of Israel, where antiquities, politics, conflict and ecological disregard often intersect and influence one another. While I consider these to be part of my landscape photography practice, they reflect on a deeper interest in subjects that most people will walk or drive by without care or notice. For this series I worked with a medium-format film camera.
Artist Bio
Born in Israel in 1971 and currently residing in the village of Catskill, New York, where I continue to photograph my surroundings as I have for most of my life. After a career in design I have returned to photography as my main passion and focus of creativity. This time, through my experience as a designer, I am more able to bring a rigorous methodology and project-based approach to photography than I previously could and, paradoxically, with it more freedom to explore. For some projects I use a large-format film camera and for others a digital camera, feeling free to use whatever makes sense for each project. My work runs the gamut from a re-photography project of historical stereoscopy made in Palestine in the 1900s to photographing a series of landscapes in a dualistic view of 180 degrees and exploring the subjective value of each scene in the resulting diptychs.
Drawer 3- Ruins, Beit Shean. Photograph (ink jet print), 13” x 13”, 2019.
Artist Statement
The photographs submitted here are part of a series currently titled, Ruined Ruins. These images reflect on my interest in photographing places where some tension–ecological, political, psychological–is subtly evident. My observation often acts as a reflection on humanity’s activity that often goes unnoticed. This is especially true when I photograph in my homeland of Israel, where antiquities, politics, conflict and ecological disregard often intersect and influence one another. While I consider these to be part of my landscape photography practice, they reflect on a deeper interest in subjects that most people will walk or drive by without care or notice. For this series I worked with a medium-format film camera.
Artist Bio
Born in Israel in 1971 and currently residing in the village of Catskill, New York, where I continue to photograph my surroundings as I have for most of my life. After a career in design I have returned to photography as my main passion and focus of creativity. This time, through my experience as a designer, I am more able to bring a rigorous methodology and project-based approach to photography than I previously could and, paradoxically, with it more freedom to explore. For some projects I use a large-format film camera and for others a digital camera, feeling free to use whatever makes sense for each project. My work runs the gamut from a re-photography project of historical stereoscopy made in Palestine in the 1900s to photographing a series of landscapes in a dualistic view of 180 degrees and exploring the subjective value of each scene in the resulting diptychs.