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A new Eye on Israel 5The 5th Festival of Israeli Art Photography
Kwitkowski Art Producer Agency
A New Eye on Israel 5The 5th Festival of Israeli Art Photography
This project was sponsored byThe Centre for Immigrant Artists’ Absorption
Opening: December, 2011
Special Credits:Dr. Etan AyalonEnglish editing: Linda Geffon
Exhibition:Leonid Padrul – Director of Festival and CuratorEllina Kvitkovsky – ProducerYuliana Gorkorov – Art-DirectorProduction: Kwitkowski Art
Catalogue:Editing & production: Ellina Kvitkovsky Catalogue design: Katerina LomonosovPhotography: V. Chumikov, G. Stolyarov, E. Osherov (Collages)
Cover:Yuliana Gorkorov
All rights reserved © Padrul-Kvitkovsky E.V.© Kwitkowski Art Producer Agency (Israel)P.O.B. 17061, Tel-Aviv 61170, IsraelCellphone: + 972 54 480 6822E-mail: [email protected]
Printed in Israel, 2011
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Dear Visitors,
I am pleased and proud to welcome the artists and the organizers of this fifth National Festival of Art Photography.
This year the exhibition is called “A New Eye on Israel” for it is indeed a fresh eye, the view of new immigrants from many countries ranging from Australia to Russia, from the USA, Britain, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, South Africa, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Azerbaijan.
This festival, uniquely centers around photographs portraying various emotions and perceptions of new immigrants, as opposed to photographs that are purely technical in nature.
The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption supports this venture, encouraging and assisting the photographers to exhibit their works both in Israel and overseas.
I hope this project, which has already become a tradition, will continue and encourage other photographers to participate in future exhibitions and to further the notion throughout the world that the art of photography can be expressed in limitless ways.
With best wishes,Sofa Landver, M.K.
Minister of Immigrant Absorption
6th November, 2011
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The fifth Israel Festival of Art Photography by immigrant photographers, “A New Eye on Israel 5 (2011)” will open at the beginning of December at the Gallery of the Association of Journalists (Beit Sokolov) in Tel Aviv, with the assistance of the Center for Immigrant Artists. As part of the five-year celebration, the festival will include two exhibitions at which will be displayed selected works from the last four years alongside new work of thirty exhibitors. Amongst this year’s participating photographers are immigrants from the USA, Australia, the U.K., Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, South Africa, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Azerbaijan. Observing the achievements of these photographers over the last five years, we can be proud of the fact that this project has realized its objective. These talented photographers, selected by a jury and exhibiting at festivals, proudly display Israeli photography in countries overseas and have also contributed to the organization of this festival, thus rendering assistance to new exhibitors.This national project, which is unique in Israel, began with the master-classes of Leonid Padrul. Upon conclusion of the master-classes, an exhibition called “A community beneath the palm trees,” was held in the Yarkon Park. The festival has today become an inseparable part of the Israeli cultural scene. It has earned wide and comprehensive media coverage and pictures chosen from the exhibitions are to be found on show throughout Israel and abroad. One example is the thirty photographs chosen by the Liaison Bureau of the Prime Minister’s Office from recent festivals for exhibition in eleven countries of the former USSR. These photographs have thus far been displayed in Kiev, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Minsk and Kazakhstan.The photographers participating in the Festival show Israel not only through the medium of differing photographic techniques, but also from visual angles that are peculiar to those photographers in their capacity as immigrants from various countries around the world. The Festival provides both veteran and new photographers with the opportunity to exhibit their work to the general public without having to pay a fee and they are also given a catalogue that reproduces their work, a benefit of inestimable assistance in the promotion of their professional work. The Festival is a non-profit venture intended solely for the advancement of immigrant artists and for the artistic documentation of the beauty of the Land of Israel for the benefit of future generations.The promoters of the Festival (A New Eye on Israel), are the manager and curator of the project, the photographer Leonid Padrul, the producer Ellina Kwitkowski and the art director Yuliana Gorkorov, all of whom head the production agency, Kwitkowski Art.We wish to express our sincere thanks to the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and the Center for Immigrant Artists for their support in bringing this project to fruition over the last five years. This fifth Festival follows the Festival marking the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, the Festival marking twenty years of immigration from the former Soviet Union and the centenary of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, all of which have been supported by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption. We would also like to thank the magazine, “The World of Photography”, which has reported on the Festival.
Leonid Padrul,Director of Festival and Curator
Yuliana Gorkorov,Art-Director
A new Eye on Israel 5 Prefase
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16 17Ilia Shkap Jerusalem
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Sergey ShmuljanAnna Repkin The Coast of Tel Aviv Jaffa
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Victoria DolinskyGerman De La Rosa Machtesh Ramon
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Michael Schnaider On the road to Eilat
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Jorge NovominskyIrina Opachevsky Grad Rockets in Be’er Sheva Ramat HaNegev
26 27Sasha Tauvin
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Paula FaifermanLynn Counio Eilat Eilat
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Rinat HalonEddi Gershengoren The Dead Sea Tel Aviv
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Shlomit Or Gama
Birgit Maurer
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Kfir GibliBoris Feldman Jerusalem
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Evgeny Osherov
Alexander Nemzer
Eilat
Jerusalem
38 39Gil YeroslavskyGeorge Stoliarov
40 41Vladimir Karelov
Mechman Asadov
Tel Aviv
Jaffa
42 43Yuliana Gorkorov Jaffa
44 45Marina LibinsonGennady Meergus
46 47Rimonah Traub
48 49Galina Kantor
Rochelle Goodwin
Haifa
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Participating Artists
Polina Adamov, immigrated from Russia Mechman Asadov, immigrated from Azerbaijan Lynn Counio, immigrated from USAGerman De La Rosa, immigrated from Colombia Victoria Dolinsky, immigrated from AzerbaijanPaula Faiferman, immigrated from ArgentinaBoris Feldman, immigrated from RussiaEddi Gershengoren, immigrated from Ukraine Yuliana Gorkorov, immigrated from UkraineRochelle Goodwin, immigrated from England Kfir Gibli, immigrated from USA Rinat Halon, immigrated from USAGalina Kantor, immigrated from RussiaVladimir Karelov, immigrated from Russia Marina Libinson, immigrated from RussiaBirgit Maurer, immigrated from AustriaGennady Meergus, immigrated from RussiaAlexander Nemzer, immigrated from Uzbekistan Jorge Novominsky, immigrated from ArgentinaIrina Opachevsky, immigrated from RussiaEvgeny Osherov, immigrated from Ukraine Shlomit Or Gama, immigrated from BrazilAnna Repkin, immigrated from Ukraine Michael Schnaider, immigrated from UzbekistanIlia Shkap, immigrated from UkraineSergey Shmuljan, immigrated from LatviaGeorge Stoliarov, immigrated from Lithuania Sasha Tauvin, immigrated from RussiaRimonah Traub, immigrated from South Africa Gil Yeroslavsky, immigrated from Australia
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2007-2011in 2009 and 2010 there was the photo festival “On the Road to Eilat”, the aim of which was to develop artistic photography in the south of Israel. All these festivals are supported by the Absorption Ministry and the Center of Immigrant Artists.
2007-2011 The exhibition “The Shadow of Jerusalem” by Leonid Padrul, shown with great success in museums around the world: Moscow, Minsk, Bangkok, Hanoi, Manila, Copenhagen, Sydney, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2011 a project of the agency “A Life Fragment - a Danish view of Israel, an Israeli view of Denmark” was exhibited successfully in the city hall of Copenhagen with the support of the Israeli Embassy and the city hall of Copenhagen.The agency has many projects in the pipeline which we hope to bring to fruition in the future.
© Kwitkowski Art
P.O.B. 17061, Tel-Aviv 61170, IsraelCell.: + 972 54 480 6822E-mail: [email protected]: www.artphotoisrael.co.il
In 2007 producer Ellina Kvitkovsky, a specialist in the field of cinema and advertising, in collaboration with the well-known Israeli photographer Leonid Padrul, established the production agency Kwitkowski Art.
The agency’s activities are focused on progress and support of artistic photography in Israel. Over the last five years the agency has carried out several large non-profit photographic projects.
The artistic photography festival for new immigrants titled “A New Eye on Israel” has been held annually since 2007. Since early 2010, some of the festival’s exhibits are being shown in the CIS countries with the support of Nativ, the Liaison Bureau of the Prime Minister’s Office. The festival will, undoubtedly, add to the development of art photography in Israel with the advancement of these immigrant artists. In addition,
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