Gilad Ophir
The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, 2013
Gilad Ophir’s (b. 1957) photographs examine social and institutional historical processes and natural and artificial disintegrations as they are reflected in the landscape, in various types of architecture and in the abstraction of objects detached from environmental context. Ophir’s works refer to local culture, but hold a dialogue with the history of photography, exposing the interesting affinity between American photography and the European sources of typological photography.