My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism. — Ori Gersht Copy Share
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
