Frédéric Brenner, photographer

An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in early 2006.
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This is what James Estrin, from Lens/NYT said about his work.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/embracing-ambiguity-in-israel/

"Frédéric Brenner has spent his adult life deciphering his own complex identity.

He was born in France 55 years ago to descendants of Sephardic Jews from Algeria and Ashkenazi Jews from Russia. His parents survived World War II — his father in hiding and his mother with the resistance. He was raised in a secular, intellectual household but went to a religious high school when his parents embraced Judaism soon after the 1967 war.

He is also a photographer, one who spent more than two decades traveling to 45 countries documenting the Jewish diaspora – from Ethiopia to Yemen, the former Soviet Union to India and from New York to Rome. At the same time, he said, it was a journey through time and tribes, and from antiquity to the postmodern world.

“It was a quest for otherness,” he said last week in an interview in New York. “My fascination has to do with this capacity of becoming the other and still remaining oneself — becoming the other and oneself back and forth all the time.”

Through his photography, he was also trying to reclaim the many threads that wove through his identity. He sought to recall memories he had ignored, the ones his grandparents almost never spoke about because they were so painful.

This search led him to Israel and to ask questions about the relationship between the country and Jewish identity. He asked himself, if diaspora defined Jewish identity for centuries, how did the creation of Israel alter that? After 25 years of addressing what it means to be Jewish, now he had to examine what it meant to be Israeli.

So he undertook a massive visual survey, This Place, exploring Israel and the West Bank with a diverse group of photographers including Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington and Josef Koudelka. Mr. Koudelka’s contribution, The Wall, was featured in a two-partinterview on Lens last November."

http://www.fredericbrenner.com/diaspora-gallery/