Featured Photographer (#07) - Gabi Ben Avraham

Featured Photographer review with Gabi Ben Avraham, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Dear friends and readers!

Our next featured photo review takes us to Israel, but for being more precisely to Cuba actually, where Gabi Ben Avraham indulge his passion for street photography.

We're enchanted by his documentary street photographs, full of vibrant colors and great contrasts, they providing valuable insight in Cuba‘s everyday life.

Enjoy reading!


Stefan Cimer
editor

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Gabi Ben Avraham, Street Photographer based in Tel Aviv.

Photography is a passion form me. It‘s my way to look at the world around me.


Street photography in particular, is my favorite genre. The street is not a studio. Sometimes I'm just standing and waiting for things to converge. Through the lens of my camera I‘m constantly looking around me, searching for the decisive moment that won‘t return, to capture.

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I am inspired by what I see, hear or even smell on the street, I absorb the images and let them leave

I have just returned from Cuba and working on my second Cuba series currently

Those who visit Cuba experience a strong feeling of travelling in time, of people living in a bubble disconnected from the Western world as we know it.

Cuba: far from abundance and comfort, distant from the mighty communication industry and the consuming culture, they live the human side of life as opposed to the industrial and mechanical side.

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I believe one must find the place where he feels the most comfortable. For me it is the street…

I am excited to wander through the streets towards my new adventure. It changes constantly: situations, people, and light

Street photography is very dynamic and therefore interesting. I wait for things to happen and they always do…

I try to achieve photographs which are a combination of the ‘decisive’ moment with mixed-context and a feeling of surrealistic disorientation

Cuba: communication is face to face, people are outside, in the street most of the time

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Cuba: there are very poor resources, everything crumbles

I try to make the spectator uncertain of the familiar and create a new vision of reality…

There is always a story to catch. The street is not a studio

Cuba: this is their world and they live it to the limit

Forgotten, transparent people in urban surroundings are being granted their moment of grace

On street things change constantly: situation, people, and light. It is very dynamic and therefore interesting

Cuba: nonetheless, they seems strong and maintain their ‘joie de vivre’

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Please visit Gabi Ben Avraham‘s websites:

http://www.gabibest.com/



Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/Gabibabest

https://www.facebook.com/streetworld



His Cuba series:

http://www.gabibest.com/cuba_2012_bw.html

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