Documentary Books
Two printed books that document my own life: a wedding held on the day of a missile attack, and three years of shifts at a bar in Jerusalem.
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Tipat Mazal
A drop of luck.
On October 1st, 2024, Yael and I got married, on the very same day that Iran launched a missile attack on Israel.
This surreal overlap between intimacy and catastrophe became the starting point for a risograph-printed booklet that blends illustration and storytelling into a fragmented documentary form. Wedding photographs, children’s war drawings and intimate text, based on conversations I recorded with Yael, are woven into a narrative that balances celebration and catastrophe, hope and fear.
02
Sakmash
End-of-shift reports, Freddy Lemon, 2017–2020.
A book that sketches a portrait of Jerusalem through my work at Freddy Lemon, a bar in Mahane Yehuda Market. It is built from the unedited WhatsApp “shift summaries” (sakmash, in Hebrew shorthand) sent by the management team, alongside photos, screenshots and memes, and documents the city’s pulse through its nightlife.
Four chapters (Community, Culture, Enforcement and Violence) trace the tensions between intimacy and chaos, authority and freedom, love of place and the urge to escape.
