Say Something about the Sea
Asaf Einy
2024
"Say Something about the Sea" is a photography book which explores conceptions of masculinity in the Middle East, drawing equally from documentary, fashion photography and conceptual practice. It shows how different kinds of manhood perform in the space – resulting in a continuum along which identity, ethnicity, physicality, sexuality and style engage, against all odds, in a precarious interdependency.
- Design: Ran Ben Azra
- Editing: Shiraz Grinbaum
- Texts: Dori Ben Alon
- Translation: Sharon Assaf, Bekriah Mawasi
- Language editing: Adva Chernov
- Copies: 600
- Pages: 264
- Type of binding: Silkscreen and Blind Emboss on Imperial Book Cloth
- Dimensions (cm): 22x27
- Printing: PNB Print
- Binding: PNB Print
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Sternthal books
- Place of publication: Latvia
- Supported by: Mifal HaPais, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 9781988689142
Asaf Einy was born in 1987 in Kibbutz Sde Boker; he currently lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Einy, who works in stills and video, holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Fine Arts department. In his works, Einy casts his gaze on male models at the social and political fringes of society. His photographs, created in the charged meeting point between the documentary, directed, and commercial junctures of photography, seek to examine the ways in which bodies are reshaped by social and political environments, and vice versa. For Einy, the very act of photography is a possibility of intimacy, which mostly remains unfulfilled.
