Shai Ashkenazi

Shai AshkenaziI choose to notice.

Black-and-white photograph: A figure in a prayer shawl walks away down a dark, blurred alley toward a bright light

The world moves fast.

Photography taught me to slow down.

To look longer.
To stay curious.

Black-and-white photograph: A man with a rolling bag waits on a subway platform, framed between dark pillars at Columbus Circle
Black-and-white photograph: The sun just above a dark hill, its light reflected on rippling water

I don’t want people to remember my photographs.

I want them to leave looking differently at their own lives.

Black-and-white photograph: A lone figure walks in a shaft of light across a dark hall, seen from above