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Ofir Berman

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Children of Mea Shearim (2017-2018)
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Children of Mea Shearim (2017-2018)
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Updated Dec 2021
Topics Culture, Documentary, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Ortodox, Photography, Religion, Street, Youth
(2017-2018) 

In the middle of one of the world's most technologically advanced countries lives a community that defies time and place. Inhabitants of Mea Shearim resist 21st-century's human norms. This isolated community has invented its own rules. I found myself documenting "old" children and "young" adults as if adults were trapped in the bodies of children. As an outsider, as a woman, and as a photographer, I could not hide nor blend in with this surrounding. I was afraid of getting noticed and the camera was my only connection with the world outside. I started questioning what "normal" was and who should bear that word.
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