ARTIST STATEMENT

In the fall of 1996, shortly after my move to Tel Aviv, I met Tzipi Rainey, the biographer of Naomi Frankel, beloved Israeli author of prose for children and adults. She died in November 2009 on her 91st birthday.

My opportunity to photograph Naomi came in 2007. I spent several days with Tzipi and Naomi in their community of Shaare Tikva. Naomi wanted me to see a picture of her first husband, next to whom she would be buried someday soon.