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Circle, Hilton Beach (Tel Aviv, Israel 2014)
Surfers in Mist, Charles Clore Beach (Tel - Aviv, Israel 2014)
Water Rings, Mineral Beach, (Dead Sea I, Israel 2014)
Floating, Ein Gedi Beach, (Dead Sea II, Israel 2014)
Swimmers, Accadia Beach (Herzliya, Israel 2014)
Resting, Frishman Beach (Tel - Aviv 2014)
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Red Flags, Gordon Beach (Tel - Aviv, Israel 2014)
Morning Swim, Tel Baruch Beach (Tel - Aviv, Israel 2014)
Bird, The Cliff Beach (Tel - Aviv, Israel 2014)
Curved Shoreline, Palmachim Beach (Israel 2014)
Traces I, Bograshov Beach (Tel Aviv. Israel 2014)
Wind Blowing, Jaffa Beach (Tel - Aviv - Jaffa, Israel, 2014)
Cactus, Beit Yanai Beach (Israel 2014)
Palm Trees, Frishman Beach (Tel - Aviv, Israel 2015)
Bending Trees, Jaffa Slope Park Beach, (Tel - Aviv - Jaffa, Israel 2014)
Sand Hill, Alexander River (Israel 2015)
Man on a Horse, Alexander River (Israel 2014)
Barrier, Beit Yanai Beach (Israel 2015)
Formation Flying I (Israel 67th Independence Day), Independence Garden (Tel Aviv, Israel 2015)
Camping, Beit Yanai Beach (Israel 2015)
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Facing East to Pray, Natanya Beach (Natanya, Israel 2015)
Beach Morning Glories, (Dor Beach, Israel 2015)
Caravan, Achziv Beach (Israel 2015)
Cyclists, Natanya's North Beach (Natanya, Israel 2015)
Crowd and Chimneys, Hadera Beach (Hadera, Israel 2015)
Off the coast of Hadera I (Israel 2015)
Off the coast of Hadera II, (Israel 2015)
Taking a walk, Dor Habonim Beach (Hof HaCarmel Regional Council 2015)
The Sleeper and The Smoker, Achziv Beach (Northern Israel 2015)
Caravan and Hangers, Atlit Beach (Atlit 2015)
Traces II, Nahariya Beach (Northern Israel 2015)
Couple in Route, Rishon Lezion Beach, (Rishon Lezion, 2016)
Two Horizones, Rishon Lezion Beach, (Rishon Lezion, 2016)
Down to the sea, Akko Beach (Akko 2015)
Crossing Over, Nahsholim Beach, (Hof HaCarmel Council, Israel 2015)
Blue Composition, Nahsholim Beach, (Hof HaCarmel Council, Israel 2015)
Today's News, Bat Yam Beach (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
Hazy Boulevard, Bat Yam Beach, (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
Fish Boat, Jaffa Port (Tel Aviv - Yafo, Israel 2015)
Couple on Pier, Bat Yam Beach (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
Heads, Bat Yam Beach, (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
Rocks, Bat Yam Beach, (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
Standing Female Figure, Bat Yam Beach (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
Windborne, Bat Yam Beach (Bat Yam, Israel 2015)
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The Israel Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea embodies the country borders, and the Mediterranean coast is almost the only place of exit / entry. Also Israel's history is related to these beaches. The beach is a place of relaxation, refuge, recreation and purity, and on the other hand there are dangers to be faced. It is a central lifeline to countries bordering the sea, in terms of security, trade and more.
After a long stay abroad, where I designed my artistic language, I find myself photographically mapping the coast of the state, in one of the first bodies of work that I create in Israel. This is not a documentary series though the mapping operation could be perceived as such. The photos keep their distance, despite the personal and subjective observation. I am looking for differing interpretations of the sea and the shore. Historical significance, religious, social, symbolic. The Participants characters in the scenes, represent these interpretations. I am fascinated by the relationship between the human condition and its involvement in nature. Small figures compared with the landscape but are an integral part of it, even when they are not included in the frame. Both individuality and their characteristics can be seen, and yet both symbolic and almost generic. The works create groups of figures unified in the same frame. A connection and a personal narrative is formed, through the concept of the isolated moment out of many moments in the cyclic movements of the sea. The sea and land, and their connection point - the landscape – are supported in human figures, and vice versa. The distance I keep begins in the act of photography itself. My place as a photographer remains as an observer who is viewing on the viewers, and not as part of the audience.
Lior Herchkovitz, Tel Aviv, 2014