26 faces Photography

12/28/2015

For those of you who are visiting this page for the first time, 26 Faces was my thesis project in 2015.
In this project I connected with 26 people and asked them to share with me an emotional moment in their life. I then created an image that would bring out the feelings behind their moment. Finally I took their picture.

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12/14/2014

Want a recap of 26 Faces?

Watch the video I put together in order to present my thesis at Master of Arts in Web and Multimedia Design (Touro College),

Thank you Yossi Itzinger for being the videographer!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9_3kdvIQs&feature=youtu.be

“26 Faces,” is where I connected with 26 people and asked them to share with me an emotional moment in their life. I then created an image that would bring o...

11/27/2014

"In the past couple of years it hit me that my entire life I have been basing my life choices on what others thought I should be; rather then making choices for myself and deciding who I WANT to be.

Growing up my parents raised me to be the way they believed to be right, going to school my teachers thought me what they thought was right, later in Yeshivah the right way was what each individual teacher from all the different grades believed to be right.

Leaving it all behind, I thought I knew what was right for me. Though, now with all the rights and wrongs, the ''right'' path has been all but lost to me. Today, who I am is something I am discovering everyday."

11/21/2014

"It's not like he was there and then left, he was just never there. I remember being a little girl wishing to one day meet him. Like the word "Daddy" would miraculously work its way into my vocabulary one day. Growing up with out a dad was challenging not just emotionally, but also financially. As I grew older I started to feel a lot of resentment towards him. I used to ask myself, "How the hell can you KNOW you have a child roaming somewhere around this huge world for twenty-one years and just not care?" Today, I've come to terms with it. Maybe he's embarrassed, maybe he wants to meet me but just doesn't know how, or maybe he really just doesn't care. Regardless of what the reason is, I look at my life now- and smile with so much pride. Because I love who I am, and I could never be the exact same person as I am now, in the exact same situation as I am now, if he was in my life. I simply wouldn't be me, and I love me."

11/19/2014

I was at my 20 week sonogram. We were having a boy! We saw his beautiful profile, counted 10 fingers, 10 toes and... a tumor. He had a type 3 CCAM, a lung tumor. "Abort,” the doctors told us. “He will have no quality of life."
I didn't listen and went through with the pregnancy. My son had his bris (circumcision) at 8 days old, and his lung removed at 7 weeks old.
"He will never run a marathon or play sports,” the doctors told us, “but he will be fine."
Flash forward a few years. We were in the park and some kids were playing baseball. He wanted to play. It was a hot day. A little voice in my head screamed "Let him try! Don't limit him!"
I let go of my fear that might have held my child back, and I watched as the boys showed him how to hold the bat. BAM! He hit the ball!
My son ran to second base. He was red in the face, coughing and out of breath, but managed to yell out to me. "I totally did it, Mommy!"
At this moment the joy I felt for my son cannot be described in words, I cried as I yelled back. "Yes! You did it, baby!" This is a moment I will never forget! It was in that moment that I realized he could do anything! I let go of my fear for him and he was able to fly.

11/14/2014

"If I had to describe a moment in my life where I felt joyous, free and content, it would be all the moments that I've spent expressing myself through my creativity; moments where my mind explodes with ideas and my happiness has no limits.

Unfortunately, most of the time life’s responsibilities take priority and finding time to be creative can get pushed away, out of reach.

Growing up, my mom would to tell me a story of how when I was two years old, I said to my grandfather “I am personality”. I might have been a child then, though to this day I believe those words to be true. My wish is to be able to develop my creativity, to a point where it becomes my lifestyle."

11/11/2014

In that one moment, on my wedding day, I knew my life was about to change forever. I was about to embark on a new chapter in my life. I would call this man standing beside me my husband; there was no greater feeling in the world.
Who knew that this feeling of love I had inside me would only grow, and now I share it with my baby boy. This unbreakable love between us has filled my life with more happiness then I could have ever imagined.

11/07/2014

"When I was 9, I woke up one morning with a back-ache. By the end of the day, I was doubled over, unable to stand. The ER doctor told me I was having an asthma attack. My constricted bronchial tubes made me feel like I was drowning.

I'll never forget the feeling of not being able to breath.

Although I haven't had an asthma attack since child-hood, I have gasped and fought for air in other instances. Now I stop struggling and just get in the "tub." The water isn't too cold, and my body knows how to float."

11/04/2014

"When I was in fifth grade there was one boy who stood out from everyone else. He had weird habits and, looking back, was socially awkward. As a class, we bullied him. We would ask him questions that we knew he'd answer in a funny way and then we'd laugh. We'd tell him to do things that we knew he didn't understand why it was weird to do, and then we'd laugh.
Years passed, and now I look back and have realized what I've done. I've hurt someone deeply; I was a bully. I can't hold in my heart the guilt I feel. Not a day goes by that I don't think about him, I just want to go back and fix what I've done."

10/31/2014

"When I told my Rabbis that I planned on going to college after high school, they just laughed and told me that I would not amount to anything: I should stick to a simple minimum wage career. I started working in a supermarket, though I hated it; so I switched to working with wedding catering company as a waiter - and I hated that as well. It was then that I felt like I was tied up—unable to do what I wanted to do-- what initially I believed I could do . I decided in that moment to break free from the bo***ge of what others believed was right for me. I was going to succeed.
Now, six years later I am a graduate from Touro college. I landed an incredible internship and through my work I have the opportunity to help others in my community.
I feel completely free! I broke through the bond that held me locked in my past. I am learning that I have something incredible to give to the world. No one can tell me what I can or I cannot do. This is my life, my destiny - it's all up to me."

10/22/2014

“Ever since I started my junior year of University, I have had this overwhelming sense of being trapped. I feel trapped by other people’s expectations and my own. Every morning I wake up feeling I need go beyond and achieve the impossible. I create never ending to do lists that push me, and I always have this sense that I am not doing enough. I believe that a day not used fully is a day wasted. I hold on to each day as if it is supposed to last forever.
If I look deep inside myself I think I will find a piece of me that is hoping to be appreciated, though If I look even deeper I think I will find that in order to feel appreciated I need to first appreciate myself and know that whatever I do - no matter how big or small – I am enough.”

10/20/2014

"Over the last decade, I found myself calling multiple places “home.”
With each move I made, I only longed for my motherland more and more. Eventually, two tabbies found their way into my heart and somehow managed to soothe that feeling of missing my homeland.
Part of what defines a home for me is the presence of my two cats. Chester and Nala, have filled that void of want and ache. They are a reminder that 'home' is not one place or country, but rather a place that's filled with warmth and love... and I am their Cat Mama!"