Menachem Kuchar -- Photographer

Menachem Kuchar
Photographer

Thank you visiting my Fine Art Photography site.
I hope you enjoy looking at my artistic endeavours as much as I have enjoyed creating them.

An artist's biggest thrill is publicly displaying ones work. My photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions.

In additional to photographing, I have been doing a lot writing over the last few years: photography, childhood, roots -- and basically anything/everything that comes to my attention or bothers me. Also feel free to read any of these starting at www.MenachemKuchar.com/Writings.

My latest writing has culminated in a large format 160 page book,
The Abayudaya: Judaism Emerging A Spiritual Journey Into Africa,
my first foray into publishing with both a strong textual and also graphic narrative, the two things at which I excel.

My Fine Art Photography project of ladies from various tribes living in Ethiopia's Omo Valley, was published by leading photography journal, Lens Magazine , in their September 2019 edition. The photographs are accompanied by my descriptive text of the project which was shot in May, 2019.

Galleries

Towards the end of 2014, I made a significant change to the way I work photographically, embracing the philosophy of Ansel Adams's previsualisation. I believe my work has changed significantly. I am modifying this home page to seperate my recent work from the older work. That's not to say that my earlier work is not good. It's great too! but different.


	India & Nepal NEW! 18th July 2016	By the Dead Sea NEW! Updated 18th July, 2016	Jerusalem Exhibition Sept/Oct 2015




	Cuba Updated 17th February, 2014	Cameroon Updated 26th March, 2014	On the Edge Updated 14th March, 2012	China including Hong Kong Updated 24th May, 2013

	Hevron (Hebron) Updated 7th December, 2010	Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) Temple Mount, Kotel, City Updated 8th February, 2011	Tel Aviv Beach Updated 16th Jan, 2008	Safed / Ssfath / Tzfat Updated 1st October, 2010

	Thailand Updated 4th May, 2011	Sydney's Coast Updated 17th April, 2012	Views of Adelaide Updated 21st February, 2011	Reflections Updated 26th June, 2008

	Spain Updated 2nd February, 2014	Budapest Updated 5th June, 2007	Slovakia Updated 5th June, 2007	Samaritans Passover,Sukkoth, Shavuoth & Mezuza Updated 1st August, 2014

	My Home Town Updated 22nd May, 2008	In Concert Updated 26th March, 2014	Wild Flowers Givat haTurmussim Updated 6th March, 2005	Rust Updated 19th March, 2007

	East Africa Updated 8th May, 2013	South Africa Updated 9th June, 2011	Equivalents Updated 1st January, 2008	Capsicums -- Bell Peppers Updated 17th April, 2012

	New York City et al Updated 13th March, 2012	Actualities in Black & Orange Updated 1st May, 2007	A Bus Stop Updated 21st August, 2007	Israeli Flags Updated 1st July, 2008

	Petra Updated 17th April, 2013	Japan Updated 9th November, 2013


View Land of Israel Galleries

Please feel free to write to me.
You can read how my photographs have affected other people via this website
and in the Gush Etzion exhibition Visitors' Book.
You can acquire original, signed prints from this site.

Menachem

Published Books
The Abayudaya: Judaism Emerging A Spiritual Journey into Africa Menachem's second photographic book, published in May, 2017, narrates the experiences of the Abayudaya, a group in east Uganda who, one hundred years ago, accepted Judaism upon themselves without being aware that there was such a thing anywhere in the world. In photographs, captions and generous descriptive text, I narrate their long journey to achieving acceptance and conversion as Orthodox Jews. Published in Yerushalayim by the Hadar Rimon Gallery, 2017, 160 pages, 12" x 12" (30cm x 30cm) square format, soft cover.

Actualities in Black & Orange

Published in January, 2006, Actualities in Black & Orange is Menachem Kuchar's long overdue first book. It illustrates the people in and behind the "Orange" Campaign in Israel during 2005.

The work represents an inquiry into contemporary Israeli life. Using his camera precisely and lucidly to record the anti-"Disengagement" movement, Menachem weaves a photographic narrative of what was happening in the background to the events being played out on the national stage. Stunningly laid out and finely printed, the book presents more than forty timely photographs from the Actualities in Black & Orange collection, fifteen photographs from the Bus Stop collection as well as colour photographs taken in Gush Katif.

Menachem's unique eye for both the monumental and the mundane reveals a vision of universal interest rooted in the everyday, yet always looking beyond. He focuses on the subtleties of human interaction to make eloquent images.

Menachem has mastered his medium. His work shows a deep love and compassionate understanding of his country, its people, their life, their problems and their needs.

Read reviews of the book.

The book is available in hardcover cloth binding, with a dust jacket, as well as a limited edition (180 copies), signed and numbered collectors' edition.