Jazz music is a pure American cultural product originated by African-American in North America. All along the 20th century this music continued to develop all over the world and to get enriched with the incorporation of new variations, new melodies, and new instruments from different places of the world.
When working at doing my photographs in jazz clubs there is strong new fact no one can ignore, this is the arrival of the Israeli jazzmen and their growing number offering Israel a major position in the global jazz arena.
Compared to the size of the country this is a very curious fact and very few people out of the industry noticed that.
I started the IsraeliJazz project with the intention to write a book mostly with my photographs and a short bios for each musician. Starting my research, I have been fascinated to see how growing the number of Israeli jazzmen touring the world was and how the education and selection systems were made to allow this success.
This led me to invest more time to explore and document this situation by cooperating with musicologists, educators, managers and of course with musicians. I wanted to show why the Startup Nation may also be a Jazz Nation. I did it on this project with a book to be released in February 2023, a series of exhibitions starting in October 2022 and a digital platform to launched in December 2022. You are now in the project presentation website.
Exhibitions photographs will be presented here after the Tel Aviv exhibition opening event on October 20th 2022. Be patient please
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project
As a photographer I am working for 4 years on a project about live musicians, showing how they
share their passion on stage and trying to capture their soul and emotions. Attending tens of concerts in most of venues and clubs in Paris and around I met several of them and especially many Israeli jazzmen.
I have been charmed by their commitment to vehiculate their country contribution to culture and by their musical skills and capacity to mix music of different origins to enrich jazz of today and giving it a wider scope as well as an innovative result.
My project is to build a photography collection of those meetings and preparing exhibitions and publishing/printing activities as well as online resource.