Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht was born in Tel Aviv in 1967; he's an Israeli fine art photograper, and is currently a professor at the university for the creative arts Rochester, Kent. He has lived and worked in London for fifteen years now and his work is both video and photographic. Ori Gersht's explores themes of life, death, violence and beauty, his films and photographs may be compared to paintings in their display. His photographs and films transcribe images of site of historical significance the Judean Desert, Sarajevo, Auschwitz, the Galicia region of Ukraine, the Lister Route in the Pyrenees (on which Walter Benjamin made his ill-fated exodus from Nazi-occupied France)—into ciphers of psychological disruption. Gersht's photographs and films provide a meditation on life, loss, destiny and chance. His works depict the catastrophic violence of past wars, it reminds us of our past, present and future, and the fragility of life itself. He took the photographs of the rear window series from the same window in his flat over a period of two years; "The series calls into question our familiarity with our own natural habitat, pointing out the gulf between the sky that we believe we know, and that of the photographs: a gap between the mechanical, attentive and unassumptive vision of the camera, and the presumptive and subjective vision of the human eye." Ori Gersht. 

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