Dormitory.

The project was photographed in an immigrant’s dormitory in Jerusalem where I lived in for three years. Here, in one of the rooms. There are long corridors and rows of the same type doors with different characters, destinies and stories that are hiding behind them. Mystery of private lives, intimacy, and funny situations are visible to everybody and at the same time are hidden. You can escape through ladders and corridors and to get lost in strange rooms. The lack of personal space, the inability to fully dispose of personal time, forced communication with neighbors and knowledge of their life changing principles of everyday behavior. I was interested to show through photography the same place, but in different ways.

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Dormitory.

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Alexander Mendelevich

Author, Community member

I was born in Northern Caucasus region of Russia in 1979. Since 2000 I live in Israel where I finished B.F.A. study in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. From the first meeting with the world of photography, I felt that the reality and the image in the photograph are very similar and at the same time different and the world in viewfinder seemed like mine. Mainly I use staged photography; it allows me more control to make the occurrence sharper.