rachel kober

Structured around a place of inherent contradictions, snake path expands the album generated during a trip taken to the Southern District of Israel by my father’s family two months prior to the 1973 Arab– Israeli War.

The book weaves archival images that focus on the cliff of Masada and new photographs made throughout desolate landscapes of Ein Gedi, densely populated blocks of Safed and Acre, and within the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem. Bleeding into one another, the images from 1973 and 2017 inform a constructed narrative that imagines highly contended land with a disillusioned idealism.