Israeli photographer Adi Nes mixes style, sexuality

Israeli photographer Adi Nes mixes style, sexuality Layering themes of masculinity, sexuality and ethnicity, Israeli photographer Adi Nes brings his highly stylized work to this year's Scotiabank Make contact with Photography Festival, which celebrates its 16th year this month in Toronto. Nes' focus on staged photography partly comes from his interest in drawing in viewers to both look at and analyze his photographs, particularly the ones that examine present-day Israel, images that Nes feels convey underlying narratives of national identity. While the photographer's art is highly personal, he admires the interpretations that outside viewers can bring. "This is the beautiful thing in art - everyone can see whatever they like. "As long as they speak about one thing, they can deal with various other things. "After I have a sense of a series, sometimes it takes about a year to understand the issue of the frame," he says. "The challenge of the photographer is to catch the viewer for additional than one second in front of the picture," he says. Israeli photographer Adi Nes mixes style, sexuality Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 09/05/2012