A Stranger with a Camera - a Jewish photographic journey

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An Evening with Jewish Photographic Documentarian Jono David
Travel with photographer Jono David on a virtual journey spanning the 20 years he has been documenting Jewish life and culture around the world. His slideshow and talk transport guests from the Amazon to the Caribbean, from India to Eastern Europe and introduce some of the characters he's met along the way.

WHO IS JONO DAVID?
I am a wholly independent (British-American) photographic documentarian of Jewish life and culture worldwide. My mission is to contribute to the preservation of Jewish communities in photographs for posterity. I aim to bring light and vision to communities today while safeguarding memories for tomorrow. To date, my Jewish photo library contains some 50,000 images from 85 of the 120 countries and territories that I have traveled to. Please visit my website for more details about me and my work.
ABOUT ME: http://www.jewishphotolibrary.com/?page_id=2

PRESENTATION OUTLINE: “A Stranger with a Camera” is a combination slideshow / story telling on the development of my Jewish photo library, HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library (www.JewishPhotoLibrary.com). I bring audience members along with me on a virtual journey back in time to the earliest days of my library in 1987 and elucidate how and why I have committed so much of my life to photographically documenting Jewish life and culture around the world. The slideshow and talk consist of five parts, or stories: discovering a Jewish community in the Amazon and my first encounters with Eastern and Central European Jewry and history; a journey into the jungles of Suriname; travels around Cuba with Julito Rodrigues Eli, my guide and driver; and exploring the Konkan Coast (south of Mumbai, India) with Moses; and a tale about my favorite synagogue, the Great Synagogue, in Subotica, Serbia.

Date: Sunday 4th March 2012, (10 Adar 5772)
Time: 19.30
Place: Telfed Moadon Le’Oleh, 19 Schwartz Street, Ra’anana
Donation requested to cover costs: 15 Shekels

RSVP essential to Sharon Bernstein on 09-790-7801 or email:  sharon@telfed.org.il