On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 42

THIS PLACE:
Israel Through Photography’s Lens
final phase, the public dissemination of the artwork through
exhibitions, publications, live
programs, and an ambitious
digital initiative.
“Whilst on the one hand
acknowledging and paying heed
to the region’s ongoing conflicts, This Place also asks that
we look beyond this—that we
widen and multiply our lens,”
said the exhibition’s curator,
Charlotte Cotton.
From the outset, Brenner acknowledged to himself that no
single vantage point—including his own—could speak of the
complexity of this historic and
contested place and its shaping
of contemporary lives; to begin
to comprehend the radical dissonance of this place would

Above and left:
Martin Kollar; © Martin Kollar.