Barak Yedidia started doing serious photography in 1998.  Since then, he has been intrigued by the challenges presented by photographing people.  The process, necessarily, is a partnership between (at least) two people.  Every model presents a new collaborative challenge to find and capture the aspects that make that person unique.

In addition to the inter-personal aspects of photographing people, there is the fact that light reflects from beneath the surface of the skin and eyes.  Yedidia finds that his most successful portrait and figure works capture this property.

Recently, Mr. Yedidia has started concentrating his photography on the art of dance, which adds the additional complexities of time and motion to the challenge of shooting people.  He finds that his ten years of dance experience bring expertise and timing to the challenge.

Yedidia lists among his influences Robert Mapplethorpe, Frank Boots, Eric Boutilier-Brown, Edward Weston, Yousuf Karsh, and the cinema.  The influence of the cinema is evident in his portraits, usually taken in the horizontal format with a tight connection to the eyes of the subject.

Most of the images on this website were captured on Ilford film in a Nikon FE using prime lenses or a Hasselblad 500c. A few were captured digitally with a Nikon Coolpix 950, and many of the latest were captured with a Nikon D70.  The negatives are scanned and processed on a computer for brightness and contrast.  Prints are output to a Fuji Frontier enlarger.  The Frontier uses three lasers of different colors to expose regular photographic paper to make a print.  All prints are made on Fuji Crystal Archive paper.

All images on this website are available for sale as Fuji Crystal Archive prints.  Some are in limited editions.  Please send me email if you would like more information.

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All images (C) 1999 to 2006 by Barak A. Yedidia except where noted