The Artist:

Steve Sabella was born in 1975 and grew up in the Old City of Jerusalem. Following his studies at the Collège des Frères de la Salle, he enrolled in the Jerusalem School of Photography where he received his Diploma in Art Photography three years later. Steve’s visual capacity is well developed and impressive. His works show a balance between authentic ideas and visual expression. This is shown in his ability to give a new visual meaning to the photos. His approach to photography has been both professional and highly personal. He has exhibited many times in solo and group exhibits in Jerusalem and now for the first time he exhibits in Ramallah and in the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre. It is worth mentioning that he has been rewarded by the Qattan Foundation a shared prize with two other artists for the Young Artists Award for 2002. To see more of his work you can visit his web site at

www.sabellaphoto.com

The Exhibition:

In the work of the Infra Red (Search) Steve tries to show a trace of light. He jumps to an invisible world - to a place beyond consciousness, where imagination resides. There, he starts to sense a little of the private intimacy of the world, its hidden gentleness, through the power of light and its behavior. In his black and white photographs, he offers the viewer the opportunity to fly himself from the normal and explicit dimension to another implicit one. His message is that “whoever wants to see the invisible has to penetrate more deeply into the visible”.