Ori Gersht — Israeli Photographer born on December 30, 1967,

Ori Gersht is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England... (wikipedia)

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.