12 Vessels

Inkjet print

I create in the space between past and present, between the Hasidic Haredi home I grew up in and the life I’m building now outside the religious framework, in a relationship with a religious man. This is an intimate personal journey, in which I look at the fractures and connections between identities, spaces, and time.

Through photography, I return home to explore my identity through family ties, memories, places, and the tensions between belonging and choice. The home becomes a studio and allows for closeness, listening, and dialogue.

I photograph myself, my partner, and my family members in the environments that shape my world: the home in Safed where I grew up, my mother’s childhood home on Kibbutz Shomrat (the zero point, where she chose religious life over a secular one), and the apartment my partner and I share in Jerusalem. Returning to my parents’ home in Safed has become a reflective encounter and an ongoing documentation of the home’s architecture, which connects me to the structure of my psyche and my identity.

In the tension between ornate Hasidic clothing and the peripheral landscape, between sacred and secular, between interior and exterior, a space for open conversation emerges. One that holds pain, fear, memory, longing, and healing. I photograph minimalist compositions, even in dense and crowded domestic settings, and focus on still life and subtle physical gestures. Photography allows me to document what remains and examine what has changed.

I try to see the studio not only as a photographic space but as a model of encounter—a place that allows for close, attentive, and human dialogue.