The major project "Jewish Album" is comprised of three extensive sections: "Family Album", "Jews in Ukraine" and "Emigrants".
since 1978
The first section "Family Album" collects the photos of the life of my own family and relatives.
The "Family Album" was my first approach to the Jewish theme. Although I have been taking photographs of my relatives for many years, I did not consciously take up the theme of the "Family Album" until 1987/1988, when most of our relatives began emigrating to the U.S., Israel and Germany. Some of them have died already, but most have emigrated for a long time. At my own home, I attempted to photograph the unique "climate" of our life as an observer.
Total number: about 150 photos
Dimensions: about from 9x9cm to 24x30cm
Black & white photos
Tones: sepia, black & white
1989-2001
The second section "Jews in Ukraine, shtetls" collects the pictures testifying to the existence of Jewish life in former shtetls (small towns and villages) and is comprised of two series: the fundamental, lasting for many years, photo series of the shtetls and further have made during of three years series about five shtetls after 10-12 years.
1. Till 2001 I have traveled to 43 former smaller and larger shtetls, traditionally occupied by Jews. Where one shtetl has nothing left but the remains of Jewish cemeteries, the next is still the home for a few elderly Jews. In larger towns, there are resurging religious and cultural activities in the Jewish communities.
Total number: about 400 photos
Dimensions: about 18x18cm to 24x24cm
Black & white photos
Tone: sepia
1999-2001
Long ago I have decided: I must go back to some shtetls after ten years and take more pictures of the same places. So, I have realized this idea and 1999- 2001 I have gone again to five well-known shtetls (Shargorod, Chernevtsy, Berdichev, Bershad und Mogilev-Podolsky) and have taken new photos there.
Total number: about 275 photos
Dimensions: about 18x18cm to 24x24cm
Black & white photos
Tone: sepia
1993-2002
The third section "Emigrants" is comprised of two series: the first contains the photos of the life the Jewish emigrants from Ukraine in the USA, Germany and Israel (1993-1997) and the second photo series documents the emigration of my own family in 2001 to Germany.
1. 1993-1997
Total number: about 105 photos
Dimensions: about 24x24cm and 30x30cm
Black & white photos
Tone: sepia
2000-2001
Total number: about 80 photos
Dimensions: about 18x18cm and 24x24cm
Black & white photos
Tones: sepia, black white
1994-2001
The series "Breath of Life" is the series about powers. It is comprised of 4 parts: Trees, Wind, Water, and Fire.
Total number: about 170 photos
Dimensions: about 23x23cm, 30x30cm and 45x45cm
Black & white photos
Tones: blue, sepia and green-sepia
seit 1986
In the series "Nude-Portrait", I have put together different portraits of people, who are not models for me, but people that I know and who have confidence in me.
Total number: about 100 photos
Dimensions: about 24x24cm and 24x30cm
Black & white photos
Tones: sepia and black & white
1985-2001
The series "My Home" is my discovery of the beauty of ordinary objects which exist around me. It comprises "stories" about the kitchen, the cloth, the bed, the window, the repair in our apartment, and many other things, which I can not designate somehow. It is not exactly a "still" life of my home, it is rather a living life of my home.
Total number: about 120 photos
Dimensions: about 18x18cm, 18x24cm and 24x30cm
Black & white photos
Tones: sepia, blue, sepia-green and red-brown
seit 1996
The next series called, "Bodies' Faces", is a series of portraits. The idea is very simple: the torsos of people look like their faces, are the second face of the person. I see much that is profound, looking at these bodies-faces, putting together couples - wife and husband, mother and daughter, father and son, and different ones together.
Total number: about 140 photos
Dimensions: 18x24cm
Black & white photos
Tones: black & white and light sepia
seit 1995
In my life I have traveled over many places and have met many people. Some of them are still my good friends, of another I am remembering not oft, but they are existing in the history of my life. When I was for a long time far from my home, my heart was missing my family and I "was" with them. I am always thinking of my presence in this world...
For this photo series I was taking pictures in the important for me places or with the people I was knowing short or long time. All pictures are made with a long exposure.
Total number: about 35 photos
Dimensions: about 18x18cm and 30x30cm
Black & white photos
Tone: sepia
2000-2001
This photo series is only one colour series I have made as my creative work. I always prefer black & white photography to colour photography, but the world of shtetls is beautifully colourful, so I have attempted also this in colours to show.
Total number: about 120 photos
Dimensions: about 20x20cm
Colour photography