• NINO HERMAN I started out as a journalist photographer and am now developing as an art photographer. My main themes are street photography and portraits as well as other themes such as landscape and interiors. I n my portraits I take snapshots of the people I meet in my surroundings, on the streets, in cafes and generally while roaming around the south of Tel Aviv. I never stage my photographs, wishing to keep a certain spontaniety and always portraying my models in their natural surroundings. my attitude is very personal. I never photograph them without their permission, which is always enthusiastically given. My aim is to make my models feel at home, and by thus, expressing in my portraits this authentic feeling of warmth, intimacy and empathy, which bring forward the best in them. this sense of familiarity works both ways: not only do my subjects and I feel a mutual empathy towards each other, but I try to pass this on to my spectators as well. This feeling of closeness, of being part of the work of art, creates an identification which stimulates feelings in the viewer. I strive to achieve a warmth, a reassurement of living in world which denies estrangement, a proof of togertherness, which is part of my ideology, and the raison d'etre behind all my work ninonat@zahav.net.il http://ninoherman.blogspot.com/
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