Zer Zahav

Thanks for taking the time to view my photos on Zenfolio. Art is communication. So here's a chance for us to communicate verbally, aside from the "thousand words" each of these images speaks. 

I use a Panasonic Lumix FZ28 camera that has a Leica lens, purchased in 2009 from B & H Photo in Manhattan through my Breslov-Lubavitch-Ashlagian friend and photography adviser, David Schweke. 

Since childhood I have been drawing and painting, but began to think seriously about photography only after meeting the late Chaim Kanner -- a master of this art who lived in France, India, Israel, and New York City until his untimely death at age 56, back in 2000. We met in connection with a recording project of Andy Statman that I co-produced in the early 1990s and for which Chaim Kanner took the cover photo. Exposure to his brilliant work, plus his kind encouragement, eventually got me going.

My first one-man show of photographs was held at the Zoom Gallery in Fleischmanns, NY, during the summer of 2013. The opening was occasioned by some klezmer music supplied by a local duo, The Klez Dispensers, along with my old pal, multi-instrumentalist  Fishel (Michael) Bresler of Providence, RI. "The Fish," as even his vegetarian friends like me call him, also plays a wonderful 18th century Chassidic meditative melody on the clarinet on this website, accompanied by virtuoso fiddler Beth Cohen. Thanks again to you both!