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Divis Flats beat us – it beat everybody who ever walked backwards up those pissy steps hauling a sofa. His CD-ROM, Days Of Rage, based on his work in Beirut from 1982 to 1985, received critical acclaim in the British press for its journalistic integrity and technological innovation.
He was an Artist In Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1998, where he directed the New Media Centre's Digital Photojournalism Laboratory, and has served as a consultant to the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, training photojournalists on newspapers in the former Eastern Europe.
If you compromise on your principles, you start undermining your work.” For Judah, it is anemotional connection with the subject that makes a powerful image.
He explained: “It is my relationship to the moment that’s unfolding in front of me and the emotion that’s being expressed by the people I’m photographing.
“My ability to connect with the emotion determines how I see it and how I compose it.
I’m laughing the way everybody laughed in Divis Flats – like if you didn’t you’d throw yourself off the balcony.
That was my Divis Flats – the Divis Flats Judah Passow’s camera captured.
Robin Livingstone.
http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/reviews/visual-arts/divis-flats-1982
He is one of the co-founders of Network Photographers.
Based in London, his work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their associated magazines, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and Sunday Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Independent. There’s a British Army foot patrol 30 feet down and, as usual, they’re looking skywards as they walk.
An opportunity to examine and reflect on what it means to be British and Jewish in the 21st century.”
The 98 images, which will become part of the Jewish Museum’s permanent photographic collection, explore issues surrounding themes of community, charity, social action, humour, faith and identity.
Interview by Alex Zatman
© Jewish Telegraph 2011
Judah Passow has been working on assignments for American and European magazines and newspapers since 1978.
Based in London, his work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their associated magazines, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and Sunday Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Independent.
Abroad, he has contributed regularly to Time, Newsweek and the New York Times in America, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit in Germany, Elsevier magazine and De Volkskraant in Holland, Das magazine in Switzerland and L’Express in France.
A winner of four World Press Photo awards for his coverage of conflict in the Middle East, his photographs have been exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States.
In 1995 Passow formed Further Vision, a New Media production company, to explore the possibilities for combining traditional photojournalism with digital technology.
They’re below us now and the big guy doesn’t have to push the washing machine, he just lets it go. This wasn’t a guy who had got a taxi from the Europa, shot off a roll in a half-hour and then got back to the hotel in time for dinner. They think the washing machine is somebody moving in and on they come. His CD-ROM, Days Of Rage, based on his work in Beirut from 1982 to 1985, received critical acclaim in the British press for its journalistic integrity and technological innovation.
He was an Artist In Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1998, where he directed the New Media Centre’s Digital Photojournalism Laboratory, and has served as a consultant to the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute training photojournalists on newspapers in the former Eastern Europe.
And we lost, of course, because the game was rigged.
I’m nine and I’m walking along the balcony near our Pound Walk flat. He starts with a conceptual overview of a political or social situation and looks for circumstances that demonstrate the human reality, producing clean, graphic frames that combine metaphor and actuality. The soldiers take a step back and watch it.
He is driven to extremes of professional endeavour by his idealistic belief in the power of photography and technical perfectionism.”
Judah Passow
Judah Passow has been working on assignments for American and European magazines and newspapers since 1978.
Based in London, his work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their associated magazines, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and Sunday Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Independent.
His CD-ROM, Days Of Rage, based on his work in Beirut from 1982 to 1985, received critical acclaim in the British press for its journalistic integrity and technological innovation.
He was an Artist In Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1998, where he directed the New Media Centre's Digital Photojournalism Laboratory, and has served as a consultant to the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, training photojournalists on newspapers in the former Eastern Europe.
When they reach political and professional maturity they will turn around and say let’s start doing things differently.
“They want to put an end to all this xenophobia; this cancer that eats away at thefabric of society.”
He highlighted the summer’s tent city social justice protests across Israel as an example of differing priorities for young people in the region.
“They are sick and tired of the violent society that they are being asked to inherit from their parents,” Judah said.
“This is a generation saying the most important thing is a roof over their heads, a secure job and affordable healthcare.
He starts with a conceptual overview of a political or social situation and looks for circumstances that demonstrate the human reality, producing clean, graphic frames that combine metaphor and actuality. “There is a resolution to the conflict. I suppose they don’t shoot me because I’m wearing shorts. Born in Rehovot, Israel, Judah moved to America with his family as a boy.
Educated at Boston University in film-making, he graduated in 1971 and moved back to Israel to complete his mandatory military service.
Review
The Jewish Telegraph
Judah’s pictures find a new home at Jewish Museum
A picture is worth a thousand words, but in the case of Judah Passow, a thousand pictures tell one story — a personal journey through the last three decades of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
Judah, a winner of four World Press Photo awards, produced Shattered Dreams (Halban Publishers, £25) in 2008 having charted the conflict since the early 1980s through the lens of his camera.
And he has also documented the lives of British Jews in a new exhibition entitled No Place Like Home.
The exhibition will run at the London Jewish Museum from February 1 until June 5.