ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A crowd of men and children in the Jewish Orthodox community in Bnei-Brak are standing in the street on a neighborhood block during the morning ritual of riding by fire of all Chametz food made of leaven. The fire burns it, nullifies it as it is prohibited for consumption during the Passover holiday. The law appears several times in the book of Torah and warns of the divine punishment "Kareth" (spiritual excision) for consuming such Chametz.

The Jewish Orthodox community in Bnei-Brak has intrigued me for quiet sometime with it's busy, always on the run and hectic lifestyle that I've decided to document its major lifestyle events. Such eye-catching community of bearded men, men with earlocks wearing sober black coats, long, thick and heavy suits, head coverings, women wearing long sleeves, long skirts and thick stockings during times of middle-eastern brutal summers… Although this community may seem to an average secular as quiet closed, introvert, to some maybe even un-inviting to come closer, it has gradually became used to lens visitors.

Lia-Ekaite Udo is an Israeli-American photographer born in 1975 and currently resides in Ramat-Gan, Israel. She started as an hobby photographer when lived in New-York and acquired formal technical education in photography when moved to Israel. Unlike other photographers focus areas, her style and niche transports itself from reportage, street photography to portraits, fashion hint and boudoir.

I am a visual storyteller. People, their thoughts, actions, and feelings is what intrigues me most in my photography. Human relationship with the world, with others, with their inner self, potential, alter ego, strength, vulnerabilities and their imagination. The truth as seen and the "other" truth as untold. You may find those "stories" in my portraits, boudoir, street, documentary and conceptual styles.

AUTHOR
I am a visual storyteller. People, their thoughts, actions, and feelings is what intrigues me most in my photography. Human relationship with the world, with others, with their inner self, potential, alter ego, strength, vulnerabilities and their imagination. The truth as seen and the "other" truth as untold. You may find those "stories" in my portraits, boudoir, street, documentary and conceptual styles.

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