Hapoel TelAviv FC fans massive rally.

 

I have never crossed the line of the football stadium. Only once in my life i watched the whole football game. It was the final game of the 2022 World Cup – the historic match between Argentina and France. But my post today is not about the football, even sure there is some strong indirect connection.

At the weekend, somewhere around lunchtime, i decided to drive to Uganda Bar TLV, famous for its hummus, which Maxim prepares only twice a week. For sure, I was not disappointed that day either and spent in the bar around hour with an amazing food and an IPA beer, enjoyed reading recent posts of my WordPress subscriptions. When i finished and left the bar, Suddenly i found myself surrounded by thousands of people dressed in red. For my luck, the Hapoel’s football club fans came to the park near the bar for the gathering and subsequent rally towards the stadium. The timing was amazing for me. I had some free time and, as usual, I had my camera with me.

A few words about this club. The club name, “Hapoel”, translates to “The Worker”, and combined with its red Hammer and sickle badge represents the club ties to Marxism, socialism, Labor Zionism, and the working class. For seven decades, the club was owned by the Histadrut, Israel’s national trade union centre. (ref. WIKI)

In conclusion – football is not my religion, but this walk with thousands heated fans was an amazing anthropological experience and the observation of the human nature, which always was and be the most exciting topic for my photography practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you haven’t done it yet – please check my recently made photo slide show. These photographs of my good friend Nomi i photographed with both Ricoh GRii and the 15 years old old work-horse Canon 5d mkii cameras during the night session in the white dunes. Naomi is amazing Fire Art artist. take a look and preferably on large monitors, please.

 

 

And, additionally, my last photozine “Isolated in 2020″” is still available on the Blurb store. I photographed the images in the far 2020, during the second (or third) massive isolation due to the only known by our government methods to combat the pandemic. It was a Holidays time and our offices were closed, so the only thing I had to do was staying at home and walking around my village and taking images.