1) What are the artist’s technical choices?
In Tomer Ifrah's series Women's Prison, he photographs the prisoners of Neve Tirza, Israel's only women's prison. He uses natural light along with ambient light found in the prisons to emphasize the mood of place. He shoots portraits of Israeli female prisoners and tends to center or nearly center them in the frame. All of his pictures are in color, but in a muted palette.
2) What are the artist’s conceptual and/or thematic intents?
Ifrah focuses on the women in the prison and their idle moments while serving behind bars in Israel's only women's prison. He captures the feeling of isolation and solitary that is the reality for these women, while exposing the conditions of this women's prison. Through these environmental portraits, Ifrah makes the viewer confront an existence living behind bars while projecting an empathetic relationship between the viewer and the subjects in the prison.
3) How do you respond to these choices and intents?
Ifrah's portraits are beautiful; he managed to capture the dingy and isolated feeling of a prison through these women's portraits. The natural light is both beautiful and depressing--the idea of knowing these people are caged birds, able to see the light but being trapped behind bars.
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