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Erik: What role does photography play in your life?
Idan: I was never really into photography, my father really loved photography and like
I remember myself, so 1st grade, we went on the first kind of field trip with our class
and he gave me one of his old cameras with a roll of film, and it's funny, I still have
that roll of film, and it's very weird the photos that I took at that field trip. And
I remember that I got back, and I think that my mother looked at those photos or my brother,
it wasn't my father, like my mother or my brother, and they said, this is completely
useless. But then I look at it now, and it's not useless at all, it's like exactly what
I was interested in, and it was—a lot of it was about people, other people, so it's
really weird because it's this roll of film that's just random people that was around
me, it wasn't even my classmates, it was just—it was in the zoo and it was people that were
in the zoo. It was very weird. And then, about 20 years later, I was going—I was in university
and I was studying art and I took this photography class, and I got a camera and I started getting
back into it. It was a very active—it was photography history but for me, that was enough,
I never learned technically how to take photos. So for me, photography is about coveting images,
it's about being really greedy with what I see around me and wanting to just have it
for myself. So if I see an image that I like, I wanna have that. And it's a way for me to
freeze time, if it's a beautiful girl, if it's a beautiful situation, if it's a kid
that's doing something that I'm excited about, if it's just an ironic situation, I just wanna
have that. And so I see it very much like the modern—that's the modern version of
hunters. Because, you know, hunters would go and they coveted these animals to put them
on their walls as trophies, and for me, that's these trophies of what I see with my eyes.
And that's how I see photography.