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"...The country is home to close to one million public and private shelters. Reynolds spent three years photographing some of these spaces, documenting structures ranging from basements and empty concrete rooms to open-air bomb shelters and convertible parking garages, in an attempt to create what he calls a ""broad cultural and geographical typology of the shelter spaces.""--PDN Photo of the Day Reynolds' photographs reveal how Israelis have creatively integrated these rooms into their everyday lives.--The Guardian These photographs reveal the normalcy of survival in the most extreme situations. His [Adam Reynolds] perspective sheds light on the a country constantly under threat and the beauty in versatile efforts make these spaces residential. The bomb shelters were created in 1948 as a protection tactic against threats from their enemies.--Daily Beast"

...The country is home to close to one million public and private shelters. Reynolds spent three years photographing some of these spaces, documenting structures ranging from basements and empty concrete rooms to open-air bomb shelters and convertible parking garages, in an attempt to create what he calls a broad cultural and geographical typology of the shelter spaces. --PDN Photo of the Day These photographs reveal the normalcy of survival in the most extreme situations. His [Adam Reynolds] perspective sheds light on the a country constantly under threat and the beauty in versatile efforts make these spaces residential. The bomb shelters were created in 1948 as a protection tactic against threats from their enemies.--Daily Beast Reynolds' photographs reveal how Israelis have creatively integrated these rooms into their everyday lives.--The Guardian

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Adam Reynolds is a documentary photographer with his focus on the Middle East. He holds a master of fine arts degree in photography and bachelor degrees in journalism and political science from Indiana University, along with a master degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from Hebrew University. His areas of focus include modern Middle Eastern politics, Islamic studies and photo journalism. This academic background enables him to balance photographic creativity with a journalist's thematic fidelity. In this way he has produced exceptional documents of the times, which have earned him many awards and are presented in exhibitions. Danielle Spera graduated in journalism and political science. From 1978 to 2010 she worked as a journalist, reporter, presenter and editorial adviser at ORF. Then during 1987/88 she was ORF correspondent in Washington. Since 2010 she has been the director of the Jewish Museum Vienna, and since 2013 she has worked as a university counselor at MUI, and president of ICOM Austria. She won the Romy award in1991 and 2007. From1990 to 2002, she has lectured in the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, and she is the author of numerous books and articles for the magazine NU on contemporary art, and general Jewish topics.

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