City's-Portraits are digital photographic compositions, which envision and explore the cultural layers and history of a city. They create a contemporary portrait of a city's unique character, while shifting the borders and boundaries of Art, by redefining what constitutes a vision of history and a city's self image.
These portraits describe a walk in the city; they create the active dimension of multiple focal viewpoints, instead of viewing the city from one place.
Past, present and future are in one vision, which encompassing architecture, art, symbols, historic events, cartography and city archives. A multi-dimensional journey is transformed into a two-dimensional image.
While photographing a city, Nissim Men has a sense of being a small human looking up at the giant city elements, then later in his digital studio, he becomes the all mighty giant re-arranging the composition.
The images exist in between the real & surrealness of urban existence.
The ‘Citys-Portraits’ are promoted as limited editions.
In that way the project can support itself and grow in time.
The editions are signed, numbered and dated by the artist.
The amount of prints are up to 12 copies each city edition,
printed in high quality on the presentable size of 125x50 cm .
Different sizes and editions will be created only by special request.
Certificates of authenticity are available.
As the city portraits are based in time the limited editions
can be updated just like the cities grow further .
Once a city portrait is updated it will be expended in its composition
with further research and visuals from past, present and future
to enrich and document the city-portrait.
Prints can be created on diverse materials and on mega sizes.
