In the summer of 2024, I was invited to an artist residency in the city of Sderot - a place deeply marked by the events of October 2023 and the profound trauma they left within the local community. During this residency, I sought to transform the encounter with the community into a creative act with a transformative dimension - one grounded in attentive listening, sustained presence, and shared creation.

From intimate meetings with women from the local community emerged the series “The Women Who Wait.” The works present a group of portraits of women living within an ongoing reality of loss, trauma, and uncertainty, while simultaneously searching for continuity and the possibility of life moving forward.

The working process was rooted in personal encounters that combined conversation and photography. During these meetings, I spoke with the women and recorded their stories, allowing the act of photographing to become a space of testimony and mutual presence. The resulting portraits are not merely visual documents; they attempt to capture a moment of vulnerability alongside resilience - fracture alongside inner strength.

Each work in the series stands as an intimate testimony to a complex human condition - a point where memory, body, and time converge. Together, the portraits form a space of human resonance between the personal and the collective, between the individual narrative of each woman and the broader story of a community.

“The Women Who Wait” seeks to offer a gesture of listening and visibility. It is an attempt to use art not only to represent reality, but also to open a subtle fissure within it - a space in which testimony, gaze, and human proximity might allow a delicate movement between rupture and hope.

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