Artist Statement

"Photography is a significant part of my daily life, filling and charging me with the desire to keep on creating. Every moment of photographing is accompanied with a childish excitement as if it were the first time.

The camera enables me to see life at one frame at a time and to discover a whole world within it; to choose one moment in time, to commemorate it, to hold its beauty, to examine it and see what the eye missed in a glimpse: a speck of dust, a single light, movement of fabric, water.

I love photographing everything: children, young and old people, landscapes, urban streets, architecture, the random and the staged, color and black & white. I photograph everything pretty to me at any moment.
But mostly I love to photograph women.
For me a woman is the essence of existence, who is containing, has all the beauty and procraetion, childishneess, femininety and maternity.

I see my photographs as describing beauty and optimism, both apparently are in the eyes of the beholder..."




About

Born in Tiberias, Israel, 1976, Dikla Laor lives in Givat Yoav, Golan Heights, Israel. Mother to children Ma'ayan and Gefen, married to beloved husband Modi.

BA in Humanities and Communications, cum laude, Bar Ilan University, Kinneret Academic College.

Visual & Interactive Communications Engineer degree, Kinneret College.

Since 2008 Dikla Laor has been engaged in ceramic sculpture at a studio in Givat Yoav.

Dikla Laor is the owner of multimedia design & development company Webtopus, since 2004.

Publications and Exhibitions