Dita Guery - Photographer

When Dita was born, her father planted an almond tree in their yard. She grew up in Tivon, a small settlement on a ridge between the Jezreel and Issachar Valleys, looking towards the Carmel Mountain, on which it is said, the prophet Elijah ascended to heaven. The place and the period, the fifties, pulled her beyond the yard and the fruits trees, to the wild nature beyond, which demanded independence and learning through doing.

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The seeds to act as in the Biblical saying: 'we will do, and we will hear',

were planted then, and influenced her work, both as a scriptwriter and photographer to this day.

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Although Dita considers herself an autodidact, she graduated from the film and television department at Tel Aviv University, and also studied Philosophy of ancient Greece and the Far East.

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She considers Roland Barthe’s book 'Thoughts on Photography' foundational for her artistic creation and within the work of French philosopher Merleau-Fonty, she has found echoes of her body of work -  in the way she observes daily reality.