[from the Catalogue]
Elyasaf Kowner uses his camera to document everyday events, with minimal editing. His point of reference is Walter Benjamin's Flaneur, the man-about-town. Single figures and couples from the crux of most of his scenes. The camera freezes their movement in the crowd. Kowner's photography tends to focus on behavioral gestures, and provides another stratum to the familiar Yarkon landscape.
(See: Ilana Tenebaum, Trapped in the Gestures of the day-to-day, exhibition catalogue, Haifa Museum, 2005)

Varda Steinlauf, from the Catalogue On the Banks of the Yarkon,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2005