Adi Schniderman

 

Biography

 

Adi is a photographer, video artist, educator and adviser. In his work process he is attracted to the possibilities created by overlapping different mediums, by creating collages of different techniques. Using photography, video, writing, sound and collaborating with artists from other disciplines Adi addresses the combination of ideas of space, landscapes, change, people, architecture and myth. In recent years he has been involved in an eclectic number of projects from photography based to video based to collaboration with architects, musicians and dance performers. The projects are diverse and reflect Adi's influences and passion for cross media projects.

 

Adi attended Yakov Burnstian creative photography school in Tel Aviv where he became versed in the technical side of camera and lighting as well as in dark room technique and manipulation.  He then had  a year being an assistants to a leading Israeli commercial photographer as well as having a studio of his own where he did mostly commercial still life and portrait work. After moving to NYC in 1998 he started working with major US fashion and editorial photographers while also taking classes in SVA and city college.

 

Since 2004 Adi has been active as an artist and collaborator using the lens of art to explore various themes and interests. Adi exhibited internationally in England, Poland, Spain, Israel, Greece, First Cyprus international film festival, as well as in New York City. Among the works are Air condition, a video work which he made together with his wife the sculptor Merav Ezer, and Goofsa a cross media collaboration between himself, Architect Mathias Neumann, and dance choreographer Ella Ben Aharon, a work that brought video, architecture and dance performance together to form unique interpretation of body movement in space.

 

 

Creative Process

 

The images exhibited in the Home Base project are part of a series that documents the development craze and the change it brought to the wider Williamsburg area, my visual diary, of sorts, of a neighborhood in rapid change. A process, that might take decades in any other place, took here only a few years. The neighborhood and areas around it are in constant state of flux, it seams that the boarders are being changed on a daily bases. My series of images aims to hold some of the memory of the change printed, both the process itself and the results. The images also represent my personal attraction to architecture, and city landscape in general, as well as being tool for me to better understand ideas of home, living and boarders. For the past couple of years I have been walking in the neighborhood and choosing buildings in their construction or demolition stages. The relative size and appearance in the surroundings where appealing, as well as their way of violating and changing the existing landscape. I then worked the images and added atmospheric editions to lock them into a separate space, sort of a time capsule. I did not want to focus on documentation, but more on a separation from reality, a distance to able me to hold them in and observe. Therefor the images are less a visual document for identifying the buildings and more a tool for analysis of the process, which allows me a better understanding of the personal relationship to the structure and the community.

 

 

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