Progressive Street

Hi, my name is Shimi Cohen, 50 years old, based in Israel. I live in Kibbutz Givat Brener.

Photography has been an important part of my life for the last five years. I roamed the streets taking photographs and developed my skills as a street photographer. Photography gives me a different way to observe the world. 18mm is the way to see the wide of the universe, 35mm is the way to see the life of the human. To take photos is my true love and passion and I strive to use my photos to tell a story. I am inspired by the life rhythms & constant flow of everything around me. I aim to expose the emotional side of human beings in the city streets, pushing the final image into a story.

These days I concentrate most on documentary photography in series.

Photography is a very important part of my space… it is to discover, it is to capture giving flow to what the heart feels and sees in a certain moment, it is being in the street, experiencing, understanding, learning and, essentially, practicing the freedom of being, of living, of thinking.

I have won awards; and lost awards, but that isn’t what matters. What matters is chasing the light and sharing it!

Take a walk on the wild side is my moto

2025

Group Exhibitions

Today I traveled by train in Israel after many, many years. About the time of the army or studies. It probably did not make me think about the math questions about time, way, speed. But more in the philosophical question of whether two people are traveling by train on either side of the caravan are actually traveling in the same straight line but each is experiencing a different landscape

Purple rain is a deep longing or desire that will likely not be met. Purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith/God guide you through the purple rain. Today I was looking for such rain between the umbrella and the incessant rain for a second.

a photograph of emotion, story, interaction.

Let the viewer "guess" what was there at that moment