STORIES TOLD THROUGH ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY
In the program of the PhotoFabric Festival in April, an exhibition and a creative workshop of the Israeli photographer Daniel Tchetchik was included.
Daniel Tchetchik (1975) is an Israeli photographer, part of the photographic team of one of the largest newspapers in Israel - Haaretz. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the photographic blog on the edition. He is a winner of many photographic awards and nominations, including twice for the Prix Pictet Rewards. His works are displayed in galleries around the world and his photographs are part of some of the largest museum collections.
On April 15, 2022 at Doza Gallery at Tsar Samuil Street 52 “Dark Waters” Exhibition will be officially opened, and in the next two days Daniel Tchetchik will hold a creative workshop with Bulgarian photographers.
Daniel Tchetchik called his project "Dark Waters - a journey in images along the Mediterranean shores." This kind of visual journey leads us through the dark waters of the unknown when life has taken in an unexpected direction. The project tells of migrants who choose the dangerous and difficult path of salvation from troubled and poor economic regions to Europe, which inevitably passes through the Mediterranean waves.
In the days, when the Jewish community around the world celebrates the feast of Pesach, giving gratitude for the happy deliverance of the Jewish people of slavery in Egypt, this photo story about the dangerous journey of human tables to a rescue coast gained particularly sound. Here you can add the memory of the convoys to Palestine through Bulgarian ports, provided the salvation of hundreds of Jewish children from the devastating Holocaust.
Tchetchik’s photographs are an attempt to recreate the horror and attraction of the sea, which may be a start and an end. You will not see sensational photographs of refugee recruiters on European shores. There is a silent narrative with recognition to everyone reached the shore and a chapter for all hope left on the seabed.
The main topic in the creative workshop that will lead Daniel Tchetchik is the essence of storytelling - from documentary to abstract, as well as their relationship with the personal story of the narrator. Tchetchik will present to the participants the opportunities for building a solid photographic portfolio and material on "cohabitation" and rejection of a language of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
Meeting - conversation with journalists and photoreporters - April 15
The meeting will discuss both the topics of the work of the terrain and the subsequent workflow and the impact of circumstances, the use of "hate language" in photos and factors that affect photographic and photoredic work subsequently.
The project is implemented as part of the program of the State Institute for Culture financed by the Fund for Bilateral Relations of the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism