Chimera

Chimera is a magazine that explores the identity of children from the 1990s wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Through interviews and styling, it portrays individuals who, as children, were “too white” for Mizrahim, “too Russian” for Ashkenazim, and felt like outsiders both at home and in society. The project reflects the liminal experience of third-culture kids — raised between their parents’ heritage and Israeli culture. Named after the mythological hybrid creature, Chimera also refers to biological hybridity, expressing the complexity, tension, and beauty found in layered immigrant identities and in voices that often remain unheard