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Shaul Schwarz |
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November 6, 2006 - January 7, 2007 Opening Talk Wednesday, November 8 at 8p.m. |
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Artist's Statement |
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During eight years of living in New York, I usually only go home to Israel at times of crises. What has changed? I can no longer wander among Palestinians. The idea of one day being able to see the Arab world intimately and close has turned into a distant dream. Due to the ever-present violence in Israel, I feel personally affected by the uncertainty of tomorrow, no matter where I am. Israel finds itself in a clear battle for its very existence. For my generation of Israelis, the independence war is now. Israel has twice conducted unilateral withdrawals from South Lebanon and the Gaza strip. Only seven months ago, Ehoud Olmert, Israel’s new Prime Minster, was voted into office on an agenda of continuing to uproot settlers from the occupied territories and withdraw from the West Bank in order to create “final borders” for the country. But it is the places where Israel has withdrawn that have exploded in the country’s face. Gaza and then Lebanon have never been more fueled with hatred and arms to continue the war. |
It is during these times that I try to stop and understand how I too have become part of this horrific cycle of violence. Even though I live far away, the uncertainty of the borders, the unpredictability and hatred have swept to wherever I go. Perhaps that is what has forced me to look deeper inside the eye of such conflicts. |
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Bio Shaul Schwarz was born in Israel and moved to New York in 1999 as a freelance photographer. Today he is still based in New York and is represented by Getty Images. Schwarz's work has appeared in major international publications such as Life, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, The New York Times, Le Monde II, L'Espresso Magazine, and Stern. He has covered stories in the United States, Senegal, France, Jordan, Mexico, Israel, Haiti and Afghanistan. For the past eight years he has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict extensively. Schwarz started developing interest in filmmaking in the last three years. He has completed a few short reports that were aired on Israel's channel 2. "The Block" is his first feature film. It was completed in June 2006 and will be released to theaters. In 2004 Shaul won two world press awards along with two POY awards for his coverage of the uprising in Haiti. He has won numerous other awards, including being named one of PDN’s 30 under 30 photographers. Most recently he won the Visa d'Or award for news at Perpignan 2006 for his still photography work in Gaza. He was also granted a 1st place Magazine story of the year of POY 2006 for his Gaza Pullout coverage. |
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The photography series is curated by Michelle Jackson/SnapIndigo |
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King For further information on these exhibits, please go here.
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