Curator: Sheffy Bleier

Arnon Toussia-Cohen spent months at the University train station, gazing through his camera at passengers on the trains waiting at the station. His course of action was simple and direct, without technical manipulation of any sort. He does not know his subjects, nor does he light them or position them for the photograph. On the contrary; they are unaware of his presence – and certainly not of his camera's presence.
The invasion of the private space occurs in the commotion of the public space – on the train, there in the carriages, amongst the fervor and murmur of cellular phone and endless idle chatter, in the place where you watch and are watched, the place in which your privacy is expropriated; there the intimate is exposed and takes form.