WINNERS

Sand Dune Modernism

  • Photographer
    Michael Banifatov, Israel
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

Ashdod (Israel) was founded in 1956. A city that grew out of the sands. I show different fragments, corners of the city that sprouted in me resonated with my own reality. Wasteland, desert, emptiness - these are iconic words for Israel. Everything here arose from the void. City. Life. This cosmic beginning captures me. You and I can only be a desert fantasy. It is in the modernist architecture of the city, which arose here in the 60-80s of the last century, that I find the very beginning, as if the city of Ashdod gives back to nature these sand dunes from which it grew.