I'm a portrait photographer from Tel Aviv, Israel and my passion is creating magical portraits of my friends, and showing their alter egos. I use mostly natural light and accessories, and after the shoot I add some fantasy elements in Photoshop that help to express the imaginative world.
"Phototherapy" is a project that has been created with the aim to help coping with anxiety and depression. Projecting my emotions in the creative process of a photography makes me able to give them a shape and to define them as well as studying them and dicredeting them eventually.
On Saturday 3rd July 2021, I decided that I wanted to practice some photography and create something, so I set to YouTube for some inspiration. I came across a Viking warrior makeup tutorial and created the first image.
I've been taking pictures for 7 years now, mainly portraits. I love it, I find every human interesting, unique and beautiful..
The photoshoot was done in 1 hour, I just made pictures of myself with the matching hairstyle and makeup, and then matched with the photos of each animal. The manipulation took me up to 20 hours for each. I observed the angle, lighting, colour and texture.
During my first episode of depression, I was reclusive thereby I subsequently locked myself in my apartment for one year, I cut myself off from my family, friends, I stopped studying, I only went out at night.
We have all felt the effects of lockdown. Those moments where you want to be somewhere else, but can't be bothered to get dressed. I made the most of lockdown life in my pajamas by transforming myself into a world of fantasy.
After years of severe depression and losing track of days not to mention who I used to be, I found that somewhere along the way I stopped caring. Missed outings with friends, existing in a pervasive fog of emptiness and even the thirty pounds I put on didn't matter to me.