The Spirit of Jerusalem

Photographer Shai Ginott records the heartbeat of Jerusalem, observing its life at close range and touching its delicate and colorful fabric. Together with sanctity and awe, she reveals moments of lightness and humor. She has sought and found new places in the city, and, by letting her heart lead her, unraveled some of the secrets of Jerusalem.

Shai Ginott was born in Jerusalem in 1958. Her photographs have appeared in many newspapers, periodicals and books. She has published several books, including the bestseller Echoes of a Landscape, which won the Gold Prize at the Jerusalem International Book Fair in 1993; It Looks to Me, Seems to Me, a book for children published in 1994; and the recent book A Place in the Heart/Jerusalem, published in 1995, from which this exhibition is taken.

Shai Ginott teaches in various photography workshops and lectures throughout Israel. Her photographs have been displayed in exhibits in Israel and abroad, among them the Barbican Center in London and the Olympus Gallery in Tokyo. Her exhibition Nature and Landscape in Israel is being shown throughout the world under the auspices of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"... photographs which show not
only what the eye beholds but the
very feeling of Jerusalem..."

Yoram Taharlev,
from A Place in the Heart/Jerusalem