Steve Sabella Search Art Project. Infra Red Photography. Palestinian Photographer

jerusalem in exile — tangible memories

Steve grew up during the first Intifada and the first Gulf War, realizing quickly how complex life in Jerusalem was, in particular with the social pressure caused by all the prevalent religious denominations which strove to convert one's religious affiliation into a national one instead of one of faith. In Search, he wanted to construct for himself a new world.

1997

Black & White Infra Red Photography

I built for myself a new world. My World. I try in most of my work to show a trace of light. I jump to an invisible world - to a place where only the imagination can reach. There, I start to sense a little of the private intimacy of the world, its hidden gentleness, the power of light and its behavior. In my photographs, I offer the viewer the opportunity to be transported from a normal and known dimension to another one. To one of which the imagination is the only bridge one can rely on as means of vision.

“Who ever wants to see the invisible has to penetrate more deeply into the visible”