“Uniformed” is a photographic project that deals with the image of the soldier. It is a part of an on going occupation with the male figure, a prolongation of our previous occupation with communication and gender issues. The image of the soldier usually represents power, domination and aggression. This series of soldiers, copy the politics of gender in general to the problematic contemporary politics of Israel, in which the individual is caught between conflicts of survival on one hand, and ethical questions and Humanism on the other. The soldiers in the series are all engaged in an operational activity. This series reveals obvious elements of order, rhythm and movement that are characteristic to the stereotype of the soldier’s image. Never the less- no weapons are visible; they have been dissolved and disappeared into the paper. The sense of melting images and the disappearance of the characteristics of the normative soldier’s motif is achieved through the manual preparation of the paper and the photographical emulsions on material and texture. Their encounter with the image creates the visual and thematic transformation which is the basis for the entire work.




