Professional Photographer Dubi Roman Dubi Roman - Impressionistic Photography Tel Aviv 64684 Israel Photography

There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light.
Intimations of Immortality,


William Wordsworth


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Dubi Roman has always loved Impressionist painting. He
sought a way to express an Impressionist vision of nature
through photography - to see things in terms of light. Dubi
Roman not only captures the play of light in the fields and
forests; the shimmering images of a physical landscape. His
works also suggest a different light. The stretches of wild
flowers in the wood, the dark trunks of trees, are suffused
with a more mysterious light; a spiritual radiance
emanating from Nature.
This mystical light can be traced to Dubi Roman's roots
in Safed and the Galilee. Born in Haifa in 1957, his
father's family has lived in the mystical city of Safed in
the Upper Galilee for five generations. His grandfather
Yitzchak Roman was a Safed artist and sculptor.
Although Roman lives in the city, he constantly escapes to
Nature for sustenance. As is evident in his work, he
particularly loves the forests. And yet his purpose is not
simply to portray Israeli scenery, but to go beyond the
specific place to the universalism of nature. To achieve
serenity of spirit, the harmony he has been seeking all his
life.
As the Impressionist painters went out of their studios
to paint Nature, Dubi Roman achieves his surfaces, not
primarily by manipulation of the image in the darkroom, but
in the very act of taking the picture outdoors. The first
exposure is taken slightly out of focus, and is followed by
a second shot from a subtly different position. "A tiny
movement of the body, and I can capture nuances that change
the entire reality," says Roman. "I can never entirely
predict the final image. Many elements come together. Many
gates are opened."
Dubi Roman initially studied medical instrumentation,
and then turned to film and television. He has worked as a
video editor for Israeli Educational Television since 1983.
All the while, he has refined his skill as a photographer
studying professional photography through The New York
Institute of Photography. He is married and has three
boys, and today lives in Tel Aviv. These photographes
are part of an exhibit to celebrate A Hundred Years of the
Jewish National Fund which will be shown worldwide
beginning October 10, 2001.


Rochelle Furstenberg
Literary and Art critic
Rochelle Furstenberg is a Jerusalem-based journalist and critic who writes on
literary and cultural issues for the Jerusalem Report in Israel, and for Hadassah
Magazine in the U.S. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Moment Magazine.