Photographic Series
Evacuees: Temporary Rooms
This series looks at evacuees living temporarily in hotels after the events of October 7 and at the fragile routines formed within that condition. Through portraits, interiors, and small domestic details, the work observes how displacement reshapes privacy, care, and the visual form of everyday life.
Rather than framing evacuation only through emergency, the photographs remain with its slower reality: rooms that try to become homes, families suspended between uncertainty and routine, and temporary spaces marked by fatigue, adaptation, resilience, and care.
Rachel Kariv
Rachel Kariv, a grandmother and great-grandmother from Kibbutz Mefalsim, was evacuated with her husband Bernardo to the Dan Accadia Hotel in Herzliya. During this period, she spends much of her time in shared lobby gatherings, knitting with friends from the kibbutz.
Gila
Gila was evacuated with her husband, Shay, from Kfar Yuval to the Crowne Plaza in Tiberias. After years of work rooted in local hospitality and agriculture, she now has to rebuild rhythm and meaning inside a temporary setting. In the hotel, she initiates small social and emotional gatherings as a way of restoring continuity within disrupted daily life.
Samantha Sharpshtein and Yarden Raskio
Samantha Sharpshtein and Yarden Raskio, a couple from Kibbutz Mefalsim, were evacuated with their daughters and are staying at the Dan Accadia Hotel in Herzliya. Between childcare, reserve duty, and work, their room becomes a compressed domestic space shaped by interruption, adaptation, and ongoing negotiation.
Liron and Regev Biton
Liron and Regev Biton, a young couple with two children from Kibbutz Mefalsim, were evacuated and are staying at the Dan Accadia Hotel in Herzliya. Working remotely from a hotel room, they continue daily responsibilities while inhabiting a space not intended for ordinary family life.
