ITAMAR FREED
Biography
Itamar Freed’s intensive photographs deal with the tension between enticement and rejection, between outer covering and essence, and between life and death. He reveals the dark forces concealed and bubbling up below the surface of reality, that threaten to explode its apparent tranquility.
In his hyper-realistic portrait photographs, he attempts to crack open the essence of the portrait, to peel off the layers and to create transparency, by placing emphasis on skin blemishes, scars and capillaries, which constitute for him an invitation to invasion and intimacy beyond those layers. He observes closer and closer until the portrait is no longer identifiable as such, until it fractures into abstract pieces.
