Ori Gersht

‘The series calls into question our familiarity with our own natural habitat, pointing out the gulf between the sky that we believe we know, and that of the photographs: a gap between the mechanical, attentive and assumptive vision of the camera, and the presumptive and subjective vision of the human eye.” Ori Gersht.

I studied Ori Gersht in my AS first year. Now I understand photography a lot more I understand that he is truly talented. These photographs are taken from a series called 'Rear Window'. if you look in to the bottom of the photos you can just make out the tops of houses which is a lovely addition to the contrast of the colours. The photos are so simple but the simplicity is compelling and so powerful I can't describe it. When I see colours like this in the sky I really do feel like I am on another planet. There is something other-worldly about them. The soft, natural blend of colours is so relaxing and wondrous. I have always loved colour photographs as if you use them correctly they are simply mind blowing.I have also always been a lover of natural elements. The countryside, mountains, rivers and the sky. These images remind me of fond memories when I have been on my own in the south of France in the middle of the mountains gazing at the multi-coloured sky, it has some form of magic about it that just puts me on edge. 

Ori Gersht is a photographer and film maker that was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1967, and now lives and works in London. He has an extensive and quite diverse series of beautiful projects going from panoramic images of European football stadiums, images of buildings scared by the war in Sarajevo to pure abstractions like the series “Rear Window” where he captures the beautiful light at twilight in London as seen from a single window in his apartment.

The dramatic skies in London create the illusion of abstract paints with an intricate blend of color and light in the polluted atmosphere of London. All the images were taken through the same window at different times of the year and at different times of day. It is quite amazing how the same place, the same view with different light, can produce such distinct images like they were taken in different locations (see two more examples below). The images were shot with no filters and the saturated colors are a results of cloud formations and light accumulation.