Forbidden Lands


  • Photographer
    Ohad Matalon
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2014
  • Technical Info
    Negative\Positive Projections

In the series, each work was created by digitally combining the negative and the positive exposures of the same image, originally taken from a distance using a super tele lens. Each work is comprised of dozens of photos digitally assembled into one image. The finished works are screened statically through a video projector. All photographs were taken near Israel's most guarded secrets - the Dimona Nuclear Reactor and other military facilities. The idea was to create a series of images that are classified and surrounded by a coat of secrecy and an unearthly essence. These photos of are not meant to expose sensitive information but to emphasize the ban on its exposure and the search for truth, while discussing the establishment's practice of protecting civilians by withholding information. These works raise the question of whether this secrecy actually provides such security and protection, and emphasize the intrinsic dichotomy between the site and its symbolic meaning and between the substantial and the hidden.

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