עדות מקומית 2012 | עדות מקומית Local Testimony

Photography: Ben Kelmer

Local Testimony 2012

Gallery

2012

Eddie Gerald, documentary photographer
Tal Niv, Haaretz, English edition magazine, editor
Moran Shoub, 2012 Local Testimony curator
Ami Steinitz, curator and Local Testimony editorial board member
Reli Avrahami, photographer
Asma Aghbarieh Zahalka, social activist, WAC-Maa'n
Zachi Becker, deputy director general, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv
Dr. Ya'ara Gil-Glazer, researcher and lecturer, history of photography of visual culture in cultural and social contexts
Eddie Gerald, documentary photographer
Menahem Kahana, photographer, AFP
Tal Niv, Haaretz, English edition magazine, editor
Jon Feder, editor in chief, ynet
Rino Zror, journalist and documentary director

Photo of the year

ben kelmer

A social protest movement activist, Moshe Silman, who set himself alight during the demonstration that marked a year to the tent city protest, Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv. This photograph was published in the media in Israel and throughout the world

14 July 2012

News

An African refugee in a car whose windows were smashed by the masses, at the end of a demonstration against infiltrators and asylum-seekers in Hatikvah Quarter in the south of Tel Aviv

1st prize

Single

News

Moti Milrod

Haaretz

An African refugee in a car whose windows were smashed by the masses, at the end of a demonstration against infiltrators and asylum-seekers in Hatikvah Quarter in the south of Tel Aviv

Refugees from Eritrea led by IDF soldiers after they crossed the Israel-Egypt border, between Nahal Gishron and Nahal Shlomo

2nd prize

Single

News

Independent

Doron Nissim

Refugees from Eritrea led by IDF soldiers after they crossed the Israel-Egypt border, between Nahal Gishron and Nahal Shlomo

Pua Palmer supported by her relatives during the funeral procession of her husband Asher and baby son Yehonatan, who were killed in a terrorist attack on their car, near Kiryat Arba

3rd prize

Single

News

Tomer Appelbaum

Haaretz

Pua Palmer supported by her relatives during the funeral procession of her husband Asher and baby son Yehonatan, who were killed in a terrorist attack on their car, near Kiryat Arba 

Refugees from Eritrea and Sudan living in the  south of Tel Aviv are faced with the danger of  being deported from Israel to a life-threatening situation outside

1st prize

Series

News

Ronny Rozenberg

Refugees from Eritrea and Sudan living in the  south of Tel Aviv are faced with the danger of  being deported from Israel to a life-threatening situation outside

Moshe Silman, a social protest activist, after setting himself alight during a demonstration marking a year to the Tent City Protest, Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv

2nd prize

Series

News

shaxaf haber

Moshe Silman, a social protest activist, after setting himself alight during a demonstration marking a year to the Tent City Protest, Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv

Single

News

Panos Pictures

Ahikam Seri

Daily Life

Refugees sleeping in Levinsky Park, south Tel Aviv

1st prize

Single

Daily life

Nitzan Hafner

Independent

Refugees sleeping in Levinsky Park, south Tel Aviv

Riman, a six-week old baby from the Gaza Strip, following open heart surgery that saved her life  at the Petach Tikvah Schneider Children's  Medical Center

2nd prize

Single

Daily life

Ziv Koren

Polaris

Riman, a six-week old baby from the Gaza Strip, following open heart surgery that saved her life  at the Petach Tikvah Schneider Children's  Medical Center

Barbeque at the Ben Shemen Forest on Independence Day

3rd prize

Single

Daily life

jonathan shaul

Maariv

Barbeque at the Ben Shemen Forest on Independence Day

Children in the streets of the Silwan village in East Jerusalem playing as Mista'arvim (IDF units whose soldiers are disguised as Arabs) - a familiar experience from their daily life

1st prize

Series

Daily life

Atta Awisat

Yediot Aharonot

Children in the streets of the Silwan village in East Jerusalem playing as Mista'arvim (IDF units whose soldiers are disguised as Arabs) - a familiar experience from their daily life

Families of asylum-seekers from South Sudan living in the south of Tel Aviv and in Arad, during the deportation campaign implemented by the Israeli government that claimed that after South Sudan declared its independence, Israel would abolish the collective protection it provided the South Sudan citizens in Israel

2nd prize

Series

Daily life

Oren Ziv

Activestills

Families of asylum-seekers from South Sudan living in the south of Tel Aviv and in Arad, during the deportation campaign implemented by the Israeli government that claimed that after South Sudan declared its independence, Israel would abolish the collective protection it provided the South Sudan citizens in Israel

The over-crowding at the checkpoints between Jerusalem and Bethlehem force Palestinian workers to leave their homes in the middle of the night and sleep outside near the checkpoints, in order to be on time for work

3rd prize

Series

Daily life

Atta Awisat

Yediot Aharonot

The over-crowding at the checkpoints between Jerusalem and Bethlehem force Palestinian workers to leave their homes in the middle of the night and sleep outside near the checkpoints, in order to be on time for work

Potrtaits

Chaya Ofer, mother of five, unemployed, divorced, receives no alimony, in a Bat Yam apartment from which she is about to be evicted, still on the public housing waiting list

1st prize

Single

Portraits

Independent

tali mayer

Chaya Ofer, mother of five, unemployed, divorced, receives no alimony, in a Bat Yam apartment from which she is about to be evicted, still on the public housing waiting list

Yuval Lidovsky, sixteen and a half year old from Kibbutz Shefayim

2nd prize

Single

Portraits

Independent

Yehoshua Yosef

Yuval Lidovsky, sixteen and a half year old from Kibbutz Shefayim

A woman selling pickles at the market in the Old City of Acco

3rd prize

Single

Portraits

haim taragan

Haaretz

A woman selling pickles at the market in the Old City of Acco

Here I am” Studio photographs of young women of the religious-ultra-Orthodox sector: a moment outside their cultural-social milieu

1st prize

Series

Portraits

Maayan Zari

Here I am” Studio photographs of young women of the religious-ultra-Orthodox sector: a moment outside their cultural-social milieu

A woman. A room of your own Portraits of young women in their domestic environment

2nd prize

Series

Portraits

Pini Hamou

A woman. A room of your own Portraits of young women in their domestic environment

Keren and Avihai Ben-Baruch, with Down syndrome, before their wedding

3rd prize

Series

Portraits

Rina Castelnuovo

The New York Times

Keren and Avihai Ben-Baruch, with Down syndrome, before their wedding

Culture and Art

Artist Farid Abu-Shakra during the filming of his video work, The New Arab

1st prize

Single

Culture and art

Independent

Ammar Younis

Artist Farid Abu-Shakra during the filming of his video work, The New Arab

Gavriel Moked, professor of philosophy, editor and literary critic, in his study

1st prize

Single

Culture and art

עמית שעל

Calcalist

Gavriel Moked, professor of philosophy, editor and literary critic, in his study

Roni Aflalo, dancer and choreographer, recuperating from an injury

2nd prize

Single

Culture and art

Gal Eli

Roni Aflalo, dancer and choreographer, recuperating from an injury

The 80 year-old painter, Dedi Ben-Shaul, against the background of his exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House

3rd prize

Single

Culture and art

Omer Messinger

The 80 year-old painter, Dedi Ben-Shaul, against the background of his exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House 

The couple Avraham and Chana Yachin, artists,  in their home in Jerusalem

1st prize

Series

Culture and art

Omer Messinger

The couple Avraham and Chana Yachin, artists,  in their home in Jerusalem

A peek behind the sets of the Israeli world of cinema and television: “The Dreamers,” director Shay Kapon; “Goldberg and Eisenberg,” director: Oren Carmi

2nd prize

Series

Culture and art

Matanya Tausig

A peek behind the sets of the Israeli world of cinema and television: “The Dreamers,” director Shay Kapon; “Goldberg and Eisenberg,” director: Oren Carmi

A ficus tree that fell in the middle of King George Street in Tel Aviv

1st prize

Single

Urbanism and culture

BauBau

Daniel Bar-on

Haaretz

A ficus tree that fell in the middle of King George Street in Tel Aviv

Winter in the tents of protesters who have no permanent housing, at the Sacher Park in Jerusalem

2nd prize

Single

Urbanism and culture

Ohad Zwigenberg

Yedioth Ahronoth

Winter in the tents of protesters who have no permanent housing, at the Sacher Park in Jerusalem

3rd prize

Single

Urbanism and culture

judith amir

Last two months with the Gan Tikva tent-dwellers in Tel Aviv before their eviction

1st prize

Series

Urbanism and culture

Amit Shaal

Calcalist

Last two months with the Gan Tikva tent-dwellers in Tel Aviv before their eviction

Wandering during the night in Jerusalem, Holon, Tel Aviv and Bat Yam - the effect of artificial light and the absence of human beings on the urban environment

2nd prize

Series

Urbanism and culture

Sasha Tamarin

Wandering during the night in Jerusalem, Holon, Tel Aviv and Bat Yam - the effect of artificial light and the absence of human beings on the urban environment