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The world is filled with beautiful things. To see them, all we need do is take a break from our daily routine, from all the tasks we perform at home and at work, and just watch the world – its people, architecture, landscapes. Too bad so few of us really take the time for such observations. Fortunately, some of those who do, document their unique vision in striking photographic images.
Abraham Ben-Naftali, Chair of the Weizmann Institute’s Executive Council and Executive Committee, took up photography while a young lawyer in Tel Aviv specializing in the stock market, an area that requires precision and commitment. He bought a simple Russian “Zorky” camera and in his limited free time would develop the film himself.
In recent years, his free time increased and his cameras became more sophisticated, but his desire to freeze the moment and collect images has remained constant. Ben-Naftali has been traveling around the world of late, armed with his cameras and taking pictures of people, landscapes and buildings. he says. “I choose my subjects almost instinctively,”
A series of his portraits that was part of a large exhibition recently held in the Shalom building in Tel Aviv presented a fascinating human mosaic: The face of the human race around the world. “I try to follow beauty, understand it, document it.
In a way, my curiosity is similar to that which guides scientists in their research. I don’t always manage to understand scientific studies, but I tend to identify with the scientist’s curiosity. We all try to understand the world, each in his own way and using his own tools.”
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