a Portrait of an Artist

Dan Rappaport 

painter and sculptor 

Jaffa, August 2018 

Canon 5d 

50mm 1.4

a walk in Jaffa, black and white

jaffa, photo walk, wide angle, available light, black and white, portrait, street portraits 

The Portraits series

portraits of people in the studio
textures and colours

portraits, black, studio, studio photography, photography 

Spaces in the city

Emanuel Hatzofe, sculptor

I met Emanuel  a couple of Times before on my cycling trips to the old Jaffa Port.

Early in the morning today, I came wit my cameras, a digital and my old medium Format Mamiyaflex.

We shared the first black Coffee of the day, a good conversation and various life lessons and ideas.

I started pointing my cams at him while the conversation went on. 

Good talk, good guy, positive experience all and all. I'll be back

here are some of the digital images

black and white film portraits of family and friends

 Nofar, Model

  Nofar, Model

 Maria, Designer

Asa, Friend 

Idan, Nefew 

Idan, Nefew 

My Photo installation in the art event "Arim Tehomot" in Jaffa, Tel Aviv

An Alternative art event that took place on Saturday march 24th in Jaffa, Tel Aviv.
I presented a composited picture that was shot on Black and white Film and later composed in Photoshop.

Also, did a "slow Portrait" street Studio using available light and shooting on a 6 by 7 Mamiya RB67

Behind the scenes by photographer Nino Herman

Nino's Blog

 The Slow Portrait

In my personal work I aim to slow down. 

As a working photographer I have a personal need to balance the super fast pace of the image taking process with a more traditional way. 

For that purpose I use various Film cameras, preferably Medium format. It forces me to measure, aim, re-compose and do a lot of thinking before pressing the camera trigger. 

The resulting images have a different ambiance, different intention and a lot more intangible feel to them. 

In this Project I want to bring the process of slowing down to the street. Involve and share this experience with the passing by. I want to take pictures of people without the constant and instant judgment of the results, which will be shown only after a while. 

I will pose them in front of a white canvas and in the tradition of the great masters, try to get something pure and authentic out of them. 

The process is the act, the photography as a sort of live performance perhaps. 

Black and white Film Portraits

Galactic Belle - a video portrait of a poet

Behind the scenes at the TLV Fashion Week

"um el arib - the mother of strangers" a street art project in Jaffa

I took part in a great  project this weekend.
in reaction to many changes happening in the urban environment of the old city of Jaffa,
 for the second year there was a call for artists to react to the theme of Jaffa, the city, the context the the urban change.
a week before I took my old 6x6 Mamiyaflex and shot 2 rolls of houses and portraits in Jaffa. link

the images were scanned and with almost no digital manipulation printed and attached to the walls of one of the houses in the street, where this took place.
On saturday there were many artists, and artists friends who came, exhibited, connected, discussed and partied with the local people to raise awareness.

It really appealed to me the easiness of this sort of exhibit in contrast to going through the tidious process of galleries and museums.

here are my works - as I presented them:

link to the Facebook page of the project