Yair Oelbaum

A collection of photos of inexplicable beauty, which seem to come from a world far removed from human struggle.

In early 2014, my father gave me a Polaroid camera that had been lying around his office unused for years and was set to be thrown out. The Polaroid Macro 5 was originally intended for dental and crime scene photography, but over the next few months, through experimentation and trial and error, a potential use for me gradually emerged. The camera quickly proved capable of capturing a feeling present in some of my (then) past images which I favoured most, but was not able to readily recreate. The prior images captured ordinary materials or subjects, but resulted in images that appear elusive and abstract - transformed by the staging, the framing and the process of being photographed.