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030~ As long as in the heart within...
I can't count the times I've sung the Israeli Anthem. Gazillion, maybe? I never found it fun or uplifting... I don't think it has to be...

Allon
Aug 18, 20234 min read
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029~ Appropriation gives no Satisfaction
Casual Sidewalk Berlin 2008 Back in 2008, during my first visit to Berlin, a lot of turmoil was raging within my unsettled mind due to...

Allon
Aug 11, 20234 min read
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028~ Standing on both sides
The Wall 2008 I read 'The Nazi and the Barber' for the first time back in 1994, at the age of 21 just finishing my army service, I got my...

Allon
Aug 4, 20236 min read
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025~ Revenge is a swinging Pendulum
Well, standing in front of the devastated reconstructions in Berlin has opened my ability to seek answers and realize the inevitable...

Allon
Jul 14, 20233 min read
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023~ Doda Ella or The wrong introduction to historical events
Associations on the edge of a flower bed in the fields. Babysitting "Doda Ella" (Aunty Ella) was one of the chores I dreaded the most. I...

Allon
Jun 30, 20233 min read
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022~ Hysteria is not a good working plan
While I was traveling in Germany in 2013, capturing the images I carefully planned for the journey - sketches I had prepared at home, I...

Allon
Jun 23, 20233 min read
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021~ Post delegation reflections - Comic reliefs...
I got a few opportunities to work with young students who have just come back from the visit to Poland. The kids seemed as if they have...

Allon
Jun 16, 20233 min read
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020~ Photography as an ultimate tool in workshops
One of the reasons photography is such an amazing tool, when used properly is it's amazing variety in application. For so many of us, who...

Allon
Jun 9, 20232 min read
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018~ Teaching Photography on Holocaust Memorial Day
In Israel, I used to teach for many years in "Gifted Children Centers." 15 years ago, on the day of the Holocaust Memorial Day, I had the...

Allon
May 26, 20233 min read
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017~ Soap Myth? or Soap Opera?
Well did they? or did they not make Jew fragrant soap? If to sum it up ...According to some evidence given in a trial held regarding this...

Allon
May 17, 20233 min read
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016~ The day I met Hitler in the Shower
The Hitler style tap for the late 70's Here are a few more associations... After a long day's work, years before I even studied...

Allon
May 12, 20232 min read
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015~ Personal Aftermaths
I met Inge through Claudia, whom I got to know while working as a photography instructor with gifted children. Claudia was well-informed...

Allon
May 5, 20233 min read
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014~ It Ain't Bridging if you cross sides
Back in 2010, as I was advancing slowly but surely with the attempts to make sense of it all and still suppressing the idea of sharing my...

Allon
Apr 28, 20237 min read
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013~ A fluid, interactive Vs. solid one- directional memory (Part 3)
As I mentioned in my earlier post, my visit to the Yad Vashem memorial "replica" provoked a moment of realization. The discovery of the...

Allon
Apr 22, 20234 min read
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012~ Subtle differences in the sculptures tell more than meets the eye...(Part 2)
Continuing the thoughts regarding the differences between the two sculptures that I began last week, I wish to continue. According to the...

Allon
Apr 14, 20232 min read
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011~ The Difference between the 'identical' Monument is key (Part 1)
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, by Natan Rapoport, commemorating the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, is placed in two locations:...

Allon
Apr 7, 20231 min read
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010~ My next Image is just one big misunderstanding!
I started thinking back to see how far I can remember any of those 100% unquestionable facts that 'helped' shape my biased perception...

Allon
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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009~ Only a Ginger can call another Ginger- Ginger
Well... I'm in this too deep now, and I want to share another dumb one-liner - a stupid, misunderstood word that I remember haunting me...

Allon
Mar 24, 20234 min read
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007~ Gas...the answers were blowing in the wind
When I visited the USA for the first time at the age of 21, I had an icon I needed to see, which for me symbolized the United States! Not...

Allon
Mar 10, 20233 min read
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