
One to Nothing (Kehrer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86828-199-6 , €30) by photographer Irina Rozovsky depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. In late 2008 photographer Irina Rozovsky (*1981 in Moscow) traveled through Israel with three cousins in a rental car. What began as an unassuming two-week journey resulted in a photographic turning point, yielding a complicated and surprising body of images.
These images go beyond politics: they do not defend a side or critique the conflict. Here, Israel is seen in an unexpected light, a mythological backdrop to the age long struggle between man and the dusty, sun bleached landscape of his origin. The score to this existential battle is locked at 1– 0, with no finish line in sight. A loose, subtle, and open-ended narrative One to Nothing describes a historic tension with striking and unusual observations. ❚





