This photographic project was shot during the summer around the Sea of Galilee. The photographs echo the aesthetic of 19th-century romantic travel photography, as it moves between yearning gazes and investigating ones, and create an illusion of a calm and isolated lake. The mythological status of the Sea of Galilee is undoubted. As the historic, most important, and largest water source in Israel, with mythical aspects in Christian theology, and as a center for strategic conflicts, it's a complex research object at the heart of the Zionist ethos. Raz's work expresses a look of an intimate surrounding, botanical, instinctual, and sensual.

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Yair Barak, 2021.