My Jerusalem

Joel Kantor

2022

"After about forty years of wandering and photographing around Israel, Joel Kantor began a tour in the capital city of Jerusalem, the city of divided nations and cultures, with thousands of photographs of Jerusalem taken by him over the past two decades. Out of those thousands of photographs, Kantor carefully selects only thirty-seven. [...] The selected photographs are the ultimate representatives of what is offered to us as an album of My Jerusalem, a well-known genre of photography, both professional and popular, always pretentious and arousing expectations, which connects the general and the mythological with the personal, the ephemeral and the actual."
-- Alber Swisa

  • Copies: 200
  • Pages: 60
  • Type of binding: Hardcover
  • Dimensions (cm): 24X23
  • Publication: Kaleidoscope Press
  • Place of publication: Haifa
  • Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
  • ISBN: 997011554958005171

Joel Kantor, born in 1948 in Montreal, Canada, lives and works in Jerusalem. He studied photography at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. In his photographs and books of photography, Cantor describes the Israeli reality, its contradictions and fragility, and the violence that accompanies it.