Photo title: Waiting for Godot
Main theme: Beyond the visible
The theme "Beyond the visible" was inspired by the pilgrims of Bethlehem. The endless queues of people coming from every corner on this earth carrying their pains and hopes to find salvation in this city, made me wonder about the shared or the collective human memory that attracts all those groups from different backgrounds and ethnicities to gather here.
I started taking documentary photos, but I always had the feeling that am unable to reflect the emotions that the scenes were evoking inside me, the wandering eyes of the pilgrims, their search, their anticipation, their fears and hopes, their hidden yearnings, their visible and obscure emotions towards the place and their solemnity and reverence in front of the poignant presence of its history. It’s the puzzle of this human mosaic that my direct documentary photos could never deliver. and I found myself engaged in continues experimental efforts with my camera until I was able to create a multi layered effect, that for me reflects the multi layered nature of the human soul, the shared human memory, the collective human subconscious where the human dreams and the fears are all concealed. It is also an attempt to grasp the meaning of salvation in the whole human context, the floating human existence in life, and our fragile passage in time.
