Cristina

The book is a travel diary of a photographer who does not take pictures, she documents in words and images the encounters with women around the world. The book has twenty-six short text sections. Each fragment is about a different woman who hosts the photographer. The descriptions are the result of the dialogue the photographer Christina conducts in her head when she thinks about these encounters. She talks about food, and feelings, and describes the woman in front of her associatively.

Christina is my middle name, the one my parents gave me when I was born. Christina is the photographer I thought I would be when I chose to study photography in art school, one who travels the world and shoots for National Geographic, free and without roots. None of this interested me and the dialogue I conduct with photography becomes more complex: it does not always satisfy, it is usually not enough. My roots are deeply rooted in the Israeli soil, my family, and at home.

The book was edited with the help of Nir Hermat.