Concrete

Like a pilgrimage, photographer Eldad Menuchin returns to recover and uncover his sites; the housing quarters of Arad; baptism celebration in the Jordan River; the IDF graduation parade of young officers. Menuchin tries excavating the visible past, believing that in the visual remains he will find reflections on ideologies that seem to disappear.
The photographs in this book are out to trace and convey lost times, as they reveal themselves to the present. Menuchin escorts his viewers back in time through his childhood memories, in a land that is consistently in search of its Identity and structure. Concrete was in massive use throughout the founding and construction of the new state. It held the hope for independence, liberty, and modernization. These structures symbolize a dream that has worn out, and nowadays seems grey, eroded, and dusty.