
Photography: Ben Kelmer
Local Testimony 2012
Gallery
2012
Photo of the Year | Series of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport | Urbanism | Religion and faith | Video
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
Series of the Year
Independent
Lihee Avidan
Rooms A thriving industry of prostitution takes place in 300 apartments in the area of the old bus station in Tel Aviv and other apartments in Gush Dan
14 July 2012
News
Daily Life
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
11 June - 1 July 2012
Potrtaits
Culture and Art
Nature and Environment
Sport
Urbanism
Religion and Faith
Video
Ilyan Marshak
Ilyan Marshak usually goes into the street to document social protest events as part of his activities in the Civil Press 99% organization. This time he looks through the window of his Tel Aviv apartment at a young man dancing in the street, under a jet of water gushing from a fire hydrant that was hit several moments earlier in an accident. The video was shown on the Internet and within a few days it turned out that the dancer was Yaakov Piltzer, who lives near the photographer, and like him transformed reality into an amazing artistic experience.
Tel-Aviv
31 August 2012
Nitzan Shahar
While social and political uprisings are taking place in Israel and throughout the world, and while individuals are joining hands, this video presents the tension between the private and the public space – on the boundary of an intimate corner. When does the external pervade the internal? How do these spaces intermix?
Early 2011
ZOOZ Magazine
During 2011 and 2012 the interactive magazine ZOOZ sought to examine how virtual documentation and exposure affect graffiti artists who work in the street, in most cases in the dark, hidden from the eyes of the public and the police force. A joint venture of the Jaffa Governance and the ZOOZ editorial board in an alley between the Old City of Jaffa and the reconstructed Jaffa port.
Photography and editing: Karin Bar and Ofir Kedmi
Production: ZOOZ Magazine
Artist: Klone
Klone’s images of human-alien predators appear on every Tel Aviv street corner, on walls of residential buildings, industrial buildings, and abandoned warehouses, on bridges, electricity boxes, etc.
Published in April 2011
Artists: Snir Rozensal, Ronit Rozensal and Adi (Adida) Khavous
“The Great Wave,” is a modern version of the Japanese artist Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. The work underscores the transition made by artists from the world of tattoos to the world of art on walls of the public space.
Published in June 2011
Artist: Yochai Matos
In “People with Wings”, artist Yochai Matos invited passers-by to have their picture taken under the wings of the angel and star under the halo that he placed in the street; he sent the photographs to a Facebook page where a virtual social meeting was taking place between all those photographed.
Published in December 2011

































































