GILAD BENARI, FROM ISRAEL
“SERIES: HOMAGE TO THE YOUNG, THE NEW & THE EXCEPTIONAL CREATIVE TALENTS AROUND THE WORLD”
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Israel National Park, Ramat GanEQUILIBRIUM
In the place where sky, water and earth find their peace
Is where you find your equilibrium.
Enter the magical landscapes of the gifted poet-photographer, Gilad Benari.
These are ethereal, and just simply beautiful images you must allow your mind to immerse and soak in, very much like a welcomed relaxation-conducing mental spa, should your day prove a city stressful and overwhelming trial to your strained nerves.
“Eternal Love”, The Taj MahalGilad’s sensitive, gentle and intuitive spirit and aura pervades every shot presented here, and you can only be left feeling light-headed as you are transported and charmed so graciously by the visions he presents to us of his special wonderland.
A wonderland seen and taken with the use of infra red light which Gilad loves and masters, and the use of which brings out a completely different and surprisingly prestine effect to the images he captures, making us gasp with amazement at the beauty he presents with this perspective.
The photographs I have chosen here represent the incredible talent of this kind-hearted and caring man who strives to inspire through his work and support those he feels need encouragement, nurturing and valued advice. He is not only a gifted creative soul, but a gifted tutor as well, and deserves himself, the acknowledgement and admiration of the world – for there are just too few of these kind of special people about us who bring us so much pleasure just by sharing the gift of their eyes.
Enter Gilad’s world and may your weary spirit find momentary, precious peace.
Golda Park, IsraelOUT OF MY MIND
The voices pound the urban pump
The sky is cloudy with the industrial exhale
The streets are crowded with too much dead time
The tempo of this human race is pressing my heart
Then I
Take my time and step out of my mind
Take a walk to my haven, my hidden paradise
Where the city always sleeps and my dreams awake
Where I can hide behind walls of imagination and go free
STANDING STILL I
With my head up, in the sky
Standing still in the cold, in the heat
Standing tall, high above the wheat
I have a small secret that no one knows
As time goes by, I can feel how it grows
I would like to be wheat, in the back of my mind
Be allowed to lean and bend, to run and hide
They look up to me, the one standing still
They give me respect, being the king of the hill
But if only for a couple of hours, not even a day
I could be one of them; I’ll disappear and go on my way
The Yarkon River, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv, IsraelOUT OF THE WOODS
Stretching my mind
Leaving behind
Where I used to hide
Where I was born
And where I died
Ramat Gan, IsraelIMAGINARY WORLD
I see myself floating on a cloud
watching life passing in slow motion
My problems are nothing but
little black dots fading into the white future
Deep inside my paradise I see me
sitting surrounded by splendor and beauty
Colors of the surreal are painting my mind
hypnotized by the thoughts of nothing at all
In my imaginary world
life around me is brilliant
All light, life and love
Everything is perfect, but me
STRANGER AMONG US
“Nature has a way of accepting the changes around it.We learned to feel comfortble with sky scrapers among the clouds, power plants on the beach, high wire in the desert…But when putting on the Infra Red filter, it’s easy to see, we have a stranger among us.” –Gilad Benari
Golda Park, IsraelSILENT PRAYER
I stand
Alone
I pray
Alone
Can you see
Me
Can you hear
Me
I live
Alone
I age
Alone
Can you help
Me
Can to answer
Me
It’s my silent prayer
You leave
Me
Alone
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