The X-Ray Project is an installation of radiographs, x-rays and CT scans, of survivors of terror attacks. All of the radiographs were provided by the two largest hospitals in Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Jerusalem is an international city and people from all walks of life are represented here. They are Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and atheists; they are old and very young, some are well-off and some are poor; they are from various ethnic backgrounds.
The X-Ray Project has traveled to more than thirty colleges, universities, medical schools, galleries and hospitals in the United States. This is a partial installation of the exhibit. You can learn more at x-rayproject.org
Why They Left is a project that has to do with why groups of people sometimes flee their host country. The first phase is focused on the experiences of Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century. There were three major waves of pogroms, violent anti-Jewish riots, which led to loss of life conservatively estimated in the tens of thousands. I have documentary photographs of the largest wave of pogroms (1918-1921), images made by the perpetrators, by surviving relatives, by town officials, and by medical staff. These images make it clear why Eastern European Jews fled. Most American Jews are descendants of individuals that left Ukraine and other parts of greater Russia in the pogrom years, roughly 1880 through 1921.
