Dmitri Brickman

Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, he has lived in Israel since 1991. He came to photography after seeing the mighty city of Jerusalem and realizing that what he saw needed to be somehow formulated and understood. The camera became the instrument of this understanding. Then the process snowballed, and seemingly incompatible things began to connect with one another, as if threaded onto the core of this strange formula—"seeing what was seen." Thus came into being:
Photo album "Jerusalem is not just a city"
photo exhibitions “Jerusalem is not just a city”, “Prayer of Jerusalem” and “Shadows of Jerusalem”, telling about this amazing City;
photo exhibition "Eyes of Armenia";
translation of the biblical text of the Book of Ecclesiastes into the language of photography, during the process of which the genre of “Phototranslation” was born;
photographs united in the same language into a single “Jerusalem Prayer” of prayers of the three main religions of this city;
photo translation of the great book "Tao Te Ching", the text of which is read by Boris Grebenshchikov;
a story about illusions, about transience and inevitability – a photo exhibition and photo film “Shadows”;
the "Photo Notes" section on the news portal newsru.co.il;
a book and then a master class, "Photography. Seeing what is seen," dedicated to learning how to "see with a camera" and how to talk about what is seen using the language of photography;
first a radio show, and then a television show called “Children's Non-Children's Question,” in which famous, not so famous, and not at all famous people, answering seemingly simple children's questions, force both themselves and the viewers to think about the most important things in life;
The book "Children's Non-Childish Question," published at the end of 2020, in which the show's characters—Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voynovich, Alexander Genis, Alexander Gorodnitsky, Boris Grebenshchikov, Igor Guberman, Veronika Dolina, Yuli Kim, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mikhail Labkovsky, Andrei Maksimov, Anton Nosik, Vladimir Pozner, Konstantin Raikin, Dina Rubina, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Viktor Shenderovich, Efim Shifrin, and other adults—answer simple and straightforward children's questions.