Olympus
Anna Yam
2019
The exhibition Olympus and the accompanying book are the culmination of Anna Yam’s photographic journey in recent years. In research-like fashion, she has methodically constructed a kind of “archive” or wide-ranging “image bank” drawn entirely from the albums of families from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, including herself and her own family. Using her usual artistic practice, which consists of a process of inspection, sorting, and selecting, she spotted pictures within these albums that were in keeping with her own inner “creative wavelength.” This collection has resulted in a broad and fascinating body of work, parts of which are presented in the exhibition and book.
- Design: Noa Schwartz
- Editing: Roni Cohen Binyamini
- Texts: Roni Cohen - Binyamini, Bella Shaier, Barak Ravitz
- Translation: Einat Adi, Tania Voinova
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 320
- Type of binding: softcover
- Dimensions (cm): 22X16.5
- Printing: Braha One Press
- Type of printing: Offset
- Place of publication: Israel
- Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
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Anna Yam, born in 1980 in Yekaterinburg, USSR (now Russia), lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She has a BFA from Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College, and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. In her works, Yam takes and also appropriates photographs of others, through which she contends with sites related to her personal and family biography and travels to foreign places. In 2019, she presented a solo exhibition at the Ashdod Museum.
