I dreamt about you for many years. I dreamt about photographing you. In my imagination, I saw myself full of energy and passion as I photograph you, and you surprised me from every angle. I have discovered how interesting, intriguing, and real you are, so simple and humane.
You have fulfilled my dream. You have overcome my innermost barriers and have allowed me to experience humanity as it is, simple and pleasant. I fell in love with you, just like that, the way you are.
This year Cuba celebrates fifty years since the revolution led by Fidel Castro. My photos were taken in the streets and along the sidewalks of daily Cuban life, including Havanah, Trinidad, Vinales, Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa.

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The Cowboys of the Golan Heights: an alluring, magnetic and overpowering fantasy.
At first, it was all about horses, cattle and men who make their living from breeding and tending the livestock. But as I photographed these cowboys, who also hold various horse competitions, I was drawn into the magic and the beauty of a fantasy. I was dealing with something new that sent my imagination into foreign pastures.

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For most young brides, their wedding day is one of joyous anticipation. But for Shahin, a 25 year old Israeli Druze woman, the day was also one of deep sorrow. Adorned in her bridal gown, she was escorted by family members from the Druze village of Buqata in the Golan Heights to the Israeli-Syrian border. Shahin said her final goodbyes, parting permanently from her family, and passed through the Kuneitra Crossing from Israel into Syria to wed her Syrian fiancé.

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The Boxing Family from Umm al-Fahm is quite a unique phenomenon. Not only has the father of the house been crowned seven times as Israeli Boxing Champion, but his son also won the National Championship. Yet, the most amazing part of the story involves the daughters. Interest in the typically male sport of boxing is quite rare among Moslem women, and girls that actually train to become boxers are almost unheard of. Encouraged and trained by their father, the girls entered the boxing ring and became champions in their own right. The entire family trains together at the Sports Center in Umm al-Fahm.
Tawfiq Aghbaria from Umm al-Fahm, with his son Amer and his daughters, Riham, Fatima, Hadit and Bayan.

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Scenes of light are captured during Christmas and Easter celebrations in the main churches and monasteries of the Holy Land, such as the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem. The nuns and devout worshippers express their faith during the religious services and rituals.

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The Second Israel-Lebanon War actually began on the border of the Gaza Strip in the south of Israel when the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit was captured by members of the Hamas Movement in June 2000. After a series of military operations by the IDF in Gaza, the Hezbollah forces reacted and hostilities broke out along in the Israeli-Lebanese border. The war lasted for almost two months until a cease fire was reached.

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I moved to Gush Katif at the end of April 2005 and lived among the settlers for four months. I had come to learn, to observe, to try to understand, and finally to photograph the inevitable. Everyone was aware of the government decision to "disengage" and emotions were volatile. The lives of hundreds of families were about to change drastically. This series of photographs captures the daily life prior to the disengagement, the protests, prayers for a miracle, living among the Mawassi, the dynamics between the soldiers and the settlers, the final pullout from Gush Katif and the disengagement from Israel.

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Selecting a series of favorites is no easy task. Every photojournalist views his own photographs from a variety of perspectives – professionally as well as emotionally. The process of selecting involves hours of review, contemplation, making choices and finally narrowing the list down to the chosen series of single pictures. I hope that my choices duly convey the stories, the humor, the love and the daily life that I have encountered along my journeys as a photojournalist.
The selection of single pictures includes photographs from sites in Israel, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem, as well as scenes from Italy and Greece.

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The portraits and landscapes photographed during my recent project in the Dominican Republic display the beauty, simplicity and joy in the every day life of this Central American, under-developed country. Their smiles, the sparkle in their eyes and the lazy-hazy days of summer are portrayed in the alleyways, the schoolyards and from the openings in the wooden window shade at home.

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