Tel Aviv, 2005, on Dizengoff Street Possibly 2005 - 2014

Leo Rubinfien captured this image of Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv in 2005 using photography. It's a black and white photo, full of all the tones in between, which gives it a real, here-and-now feel. Looking at the way the light falls on the woman's face, you can almost feel the sun and the dust of the city. The texture isn't just in what's shown—the beads, the fabric, the skin—but also in the way the light hits it, creating a kind of visual grit. There's something about the directness of the gaze and the casual composition that makes it feel so immediate, like a snapshot from life itself. It reminds me a bit of the early street photography of Garry Winogrand, that same knack for finding the extraordinary in the everyday. Like all good art, it feels like a starting point for a conversation, not an end.