Shimon Hameiri, Holography and Photography

From when I was as young as 13, I began to capture the world through a camera lens. The camera became an integral part of me, accompanying me everywhere I went. Even today the camera is my chosen form of expression and enables me to record whatever I come across. The resulting pictures aim to translate a three-dimensional reality into a two-dimensional medium.

Using the computer as a brush, allows me to create a new and fascinating field : Photo-Painting.

Over the years I began to combine my first love of photography with other areas that I found equally fascinating: physics, optics and art. These led me into the magical world of the three-dimensional, as illustrated in holography and art photography. Holograms are a technique of creating 3D photographs based on a physical mixture of laser light and the photographed object.

Regrettably, the two-dimensional Internet is unable to reproduce holograms to full effect, so it is almost impossible to understand the impact on a computer screen. I recommend a visit to one of the many exhibitions of my work around Israel, as well as in other countries. Check out details of exhibitions and holograms on my website: www.holoart.co.il.

I am currently the only artist in Israel working in the field of holograms and one of a very small group altogether (a total of about 20 around the world) using holography as an artistic “paintbrush”. In the past year I have spearheaded a new concept worldwide – a combination and a Dialogue between photographs and holograms united in a single exhibition.

Shimon Hameiri

Ehud Dor,  painter and sculptor

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Individuals greater and wiser than me have stated that the world of men is divided into two disproportionate parts. Most men love women out of their love for themselves, and only a small proportion of men love women – because they adore women in their own right. These men see the female species as nature’s most successful creation.    During morning prayers they recite the blessing: “Blessed is He who created a woman….”

And if I wish to be quite frank, it seems that I too belong to this minority.

I see women as the most exceptional beauty spots to have been inlaid into our world, and I must admit, much to my own shame, that I have not grown weary of watching them.     Therefore, it should come as no surprise, that women are the salient feature of my paintings.

I have always been deeply envious of artists, who spend sleepless nights (that is what I learn repeatedly from the articles written by the art critics) searching for solutions to the critical problems of our world, such as the paradox between beauty and pain, between the aesthetic and utter ruin, between what exists and the unknown; or alternatively, in their seeking a resolution of the prevailing tension between the absolute and what is doubtful, between the physical and the spiritual, and further pressing questions, which have such fine values.   So sadly, my attention is not devoted to all of these, and consequently, I cannot help very much in promoting a solution to all those same vital and lofty questions.

For me the fascinating female contour, the exquisite, the elegant and erotic will suffice.    I am enraptured by the features of the various regions of the female body – the charm of those regions laden with the best of everything, just like the tenderness of the apparently barren regions, and then first and foremost – in the charm of the indistinct frontier regions; I do not cease wondering at the illusions of their thrilling contours, at the graphic joints of their limbs, and by the interminable events that occur among all these.     All that is sufficient for me.

Ehud Dor