Martin Kollar
studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, the Film
faculty, camera department. He has been working as a freelance
photographer and cinematographer since he has been graduated there. Martin
Kollar’s book Field Trip,
is one part of a bigger project This Place, which focuses on the contemporary photographic representation of Israel
and the West Bank.
Slovakian
photographer Martin Kollar's
images from Israel occupy an elusive space. In some cases resembling still
lifes or other premeditated situations and arrangements, these documentary
photographs poetically describe both the mundane and surreal realities of life
in Israel. One key is the psychological weight theses photographs carry. It is no mistake
that the photographs from Field Trip, Kollar makes a comparison between
the tensions his childhood growing up behind the Iron Curtain in the former
Czechoslovakia and the day-to-day realities of life in contemporary Israel.
I
really enjoyed Kollar’s photography series The
Field Trip. In the series Kollar
really captured the hardships and the beauty of Israel. In some of the photos in this collection it
shows the side that many of us Americans know as a war zone. However in others it shows the beautiful
fields of Israel. Theses photos carry a
great weight to them and I really appreciate that realness of them.
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