Ori Gersht (born 1967) is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England. Read full biography of Ori Gersht →
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and... →
I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would... →
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with... →
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how... →
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay... →
Ori Gersht (born 1967) is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England.