Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht
Ori Gershtis an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPhotographer
CountryIsrael
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.