Behold, You are consecrated - the book.
(Publisher: Tamooz , 80 pages , color + black & white , hard cover) The book "Behold, you are consecrated " is a confrontation dealing with loss. The loss of holiness, purity and innocence are feelings, which can be compared to that of a free fall to the depth of an abyss. Thus, memorials and cemeteries were chosen by me as apt settings to enhance these feelings. Although my work might seem provocative, this was not my intention. Moreover, I felt this was the best way I could express these issues with the utmost sincerity.
I could have photographed a girl in a field of flowers and achieve spectacular photographs, but then there wouldn't be any message … nothing…emptiness… My main objective was to express concepts that were derived from a personal artistic perspective, and it was not in my interest to offend anyone by publishing this book. If while looking at the photographs in the book one senses feelings of morose, I have then achieved my goal.
I have explicitly chosen specific contextual situations, such as cemeteries, since they so vividly reflect feelings, which I myself have personally experienced. Cemeteries can be seen as to represent the freezing of time. The grave - an expression of time erased. Both of these contextual situations are indicative to the feelings I have had, which could be compared to those of a man deceased. Similarly, the sexual violence portrayed in the photographs came from feelings of humiliation and unseemliness both of which I've experienced.
The production of each photograph in the book was similar to the process in which a movie is produced. Everything was preplanned, up until the very last detail, be it venue, light, position and angle - each and every detail was thought over and analyzed, nothing was left for chance. It was important for me to show the holiness of the site as well as the holiness of the nudity.
This reflected my opinion that a woman's nudity is a sacred divinity. In my mind, clothes act as masks used by humans to hide behind. These can be seen as remnants of our punishment handed down from The Sin of our Fathers, before they were banned from The Garden of Eden.