PROJECTS – STILLS | Roni Ben Ari, Photographer - רוני בן ארי, צלמת

Ladies in waiting

EsterDenis

Sodom

A change in the topographic area, in the lowest place in the world, due to the sinkholes and the digging of the feeder channels to the Dead Sea Works.

Traces of Dance

This is a series of works on an extended family biography, a journey embracing the cycle of my life. The journey’s parts are accompanied by original music.

Laugh Away

They say laughter is the best medicine. And this is going from being just a phrase to a reality.
A popular concept in the West, medical clowning has recently been introduced in India.

In this project I followed two medical clowns from Israel who volunteered to preform in
orphanages in India.

I watched as they succeeded in turning the sad and frightened faces of the kids into smiling and then laughing out loud. kids who were gathered from the streets to orphanages. And thanks to the clowns they were relieved of their daily troubles.

Loom| Father| Requiem

Out of parts of a loom I wove a virtual animation pattern as my father wove textiles in his real factory. In doing so, I have created a hand-made piece of large colorful cloth.

Faces

The work “FACES” is a journey between the external eye into my inner eye, to myself.

Bubbles

Ocean of Garbage

Garbage is the last phase in the life of a good or package that has fulfilled its purpose. I took pictures of giant waste sites that are used as transfer stations from where garbage is supposed to be sent for its final disposal.

Bateva Shelanu

“Bateva Shelanu” is an enterprise that employs people with disabilities while integrating them
into the community

בטב”ע שלנו, הינו מיזם המעסיק אנשים עם מוגבלויות תוך שילובם בקהילה
http://www.bateva.org

Ariel

My granddaughter Ariel has a language disorder. In order to express herself she speaks through communication boards that have pictures and symbols of the objects that surround her. This happy and touching little girl is deeply embedded in my heart.

TRAVEL COLOR

The Palmach

The Palmach generation, passing on its legacy as an educational value for today’s youth.

Homeless

At nightfall, the drunk, drugged, and destitute are gathered up by good-hearted people and taken to “Gagon” in Tel Aviv, a shelter that provides showers, beds and a hot meal. Come morning, they go back out on the street, imagining that their situation has improved.
I followed those people who walk on two feet and live in burrows like rats.

Drawing Stone

This is the journey of a stone that soars through the wind and lands in another place, but when it falls to Earth, creates a new landscape of rustled lines that cannot be ignored.

Gypsies color

I traveled to the city of my mother’s birth, Cluj-Napoca in Romania, to document her early life there among her gypsy neighbors. She felt a part of their world and I followed her footsteps.

Travel BW

Ethiopia Here

I focus on the adherence of the Ethiopian community in Israel to their heritage as well the young people who try to free themselves from the burden of their tradition.

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Gypsies B&W

I traveled to the city of my mother’s birth, Cluj-Napoca in Romania, to document her early life there among her gypsy neighbors. She felt a part of their world and I followed her footsteps.

Female Boxer

I followed Adele (an openly lesbian Arab Christian) to a training session in a boxing club in Tel Aviv. I photographed her from dusk until the last ray of light streamed into the gym.

The Santaria Ceremony

This ceremony was photographed at the senator’s home in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. The ceremony incorporated musical instruments, the drinking of Rum and animal sacrifice in order that the gods will intervene and provide fertile land and a good life.

Transition

The transition is a kind of process separating action from contemplation of my inner self.

Till their Voices Stop

In this project about aging and the aged I try to stop the pain of passing time and engage in the colorful aspects of the essence of life.

Female Empowerment

Women in various stages of their lives gather in an ecological farm. There, they contemplate their innerselves and observe the world around them.

Turkey

In and around the alleyways of Istanbul.

I've Been There

Like Alice in Wonderland who followed the rabbit, I followed a group of retirees who came together to make a dream into a reality. As youths they chose to leave Bulgaria for Israel. Now, in their golden years, they meet weekly in a small hall to sing and dance the viable memories of their birthplace.

The Women’s Courtyard

This is a place where young women of different religions are given a chance they never had. Young women, alone, without any family support, who suffer from poverty and endure harsh living conditions, are given the chance to experience a supportive environment that helps them to better integrate into society as independent women, both emotionally and financially.