Liad Ronen's debut album

Liad was a singer, an artist, a sound person, a songwriter and a composer. In the process of releasing her first album, but sadly she did not manage to reach that goal. Two months before her 30th birthday, Liad was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called TTP - a disease that left her fighting to survive, and that ultimately took her life only one week later.

Liad left behind her voice, recorded. I was privileged to take part in the initiative of Smadar and Geva (Liad's brother and sister), by documenting the recording of the album, at Bardo Studios - 

Composer Ari Gorali

Composer Moran Meisels

Karen Teperberg

Michael Frost

Composer Yehu Yaron

Composer Shaul Pechter

Yair Rubin

Sound Engineer, Ithamar Samuel Eshpar

The Ronen Family

Second day of recording, starting off with Smadar Ronen's band

Noam Shacham

Itamar Hazi Shalev

Then the strings section

Hen Shenhar

Noa Ayali

Yiftah Boaz

Smadar Ronen

Daniel Tanchelson

Daniel Sapir

Noam Haimovitz Weinschel

Nitsan Barber

Composer Moran Meisels

Documentation by Geva

Composer Alon Radai

There are 11 days left to be a part of this amazing project - 
http://www.headstart.co.il/project.aspx?id=13533

Photoshoot at The Dead Sea

A fellow photographer (and a good friend of mine) and I drove to The Dead Sea (The Sea Of Salt) and had a wonderful photo shoot.  We left Tel Aviv at 6:00 AM and arrived to The Dead Sea at around 8:00 AM. The time spent on the road was definitely worth it - the moment you stop on the side of the road, your camera on your shoulder, walking closer and closer to the edge; AND then it’s just you and the sea. Your focus shifts from the ground to the horizon to the waves crashing into the shore.  It’s an amazing feeling of connected to the world.    

 

Here is some information - 
1. The surface and shores of the Dead Sea are 423 metres (1,388 ft) below sea level, making it Earth’s LOWEST elevation on land.
2. The Dead Sea is actually a salt lake, bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.
3. The Dead Sea’s unusually high salt concentration (roughly 8.6 times saltier than the ocean), which means that people can easily float in it due to natural buoyancy.
4. It also means that it is a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish.
5. On the other hand,  The Dead Sea area has become a major center for health research and treatment because of the mineral content of the water, the very low content of pollens and other allergens in the atmosphere, the reduced ultraviolet component of solar radiation.

I used the Nikon D7000 for stills and video. And also the Hasselblad 500 c/m (which is a 6X6 square format). Here are some photos - 

On our way at sunrise..

Different layers of salt.

Tel Hai Exhibition 2013

I am participating in a group exhibition at the Tel Hai Museum of Photography, along with other graduates, where we're presenting our final projects.

The exhibition had opened on December 30th and will run till January 2nd.