TITLE: New York in B&W

AUTHOR: Shifra Levyathan (Israel)


Shifra is an award-winning artist who has had an album of her works published and has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Israel, Europe and the U.S.A. She recently participated in the “Berlin Foto Bienniale, the 4th biennial of fine art and documentary photography”, Octoer 2016. Shifra lives and works in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Shifra uses her camera to record the reality of the physical world with a precise clarity. Then she digitally manipulates the photos into images that exist in her mind’s eye. She describes her work as “a parallel reality: one that is immortalized by the camera, the other exists in my imagination”.

“I would like the moments l capture to add beauty” she says “and maybe change the way my viewers see the world around them”.