Chimera
2025
Chimera is a magazine that explores the identity of children from the 1990s wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union.
Through interviews and styling, it portrays individuals who, as children, were “too white” for Mizrahim, “too Russian” for Ashkenazim, and felt like outsiders both at home and in society. The project reflects the liminal experience of third-culture kids — raised between their parents’ heritage and Israeli culture. Named after the mythological hybrid creature, Chimera also refers to biological hybridity, expressing the complexity, tension, and beauty found in layered immigrant identities and in voices that often remain unheard
- Copies: 10
- Pages: 320
- Type of binding: Elastic binding
- Languages: Hebrew
- Dimensions (cm): 26x20
- Printing: A.R. Printing Ltd., Tel Aviv
- Type of printing: Indigo
- Publication: Self-published
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv, Israel
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Alex Zagatsky, born in 1998, graduated from the Visual Communication Department at Bezalel in 2025. A designer working in typography, art direction, branding, and print. Her work addresses issues of identity, location, and belonging, as well as the visual expressions of marginal cultures that emerge at the intersections of different societies.
