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Ori Gersht thought on Still Life Photography:
Ori Gersht goes beyond the thought of Still Life its self, he takes it further by videoing live explosions of plants and fruits. his most famous work was a pomegranate exploding by a bullet, therefore symbolizes the brutality, which has happened throughout history. Ori said “One cannot exist without the other. This circle of existence is comprised of the two. 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.” Meaning that his images are showing reality against the unknown in society.
History of Ori Gersht:
- Ori was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967.
- In 1992 Ori received a BFA at the University of Westminster, London for his works in film, photography and video.
- In 1995, Ori got his MFA in Photography at the Royal College of Arts, London.
- Ori explores how technology mediates and transform our perception of nature and history.
- Gersht’s work often probes the ways in which landscape can stand witness to tragedy.
- Ori Gersht has photographed traumatic events such as Auschwitz, Bosnia, Hiroshima, and Ukraine, and his images present haunting and subdued transformations of these sites of human atrocity.
- In the White Noise(1999) he photographed a series of photographs when he was travelling on a train from Krakow to Auschwitz, a process echoing the forced migration of Jews by train during World War II. This therefore alludes to the “blinding’ process of historical amnesia.”