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Twenty-Four Windows, 85x80 cm. 35mm photography.\ Noga Greenberg

A Plea for Intimacy
Noga Greenberg’s (b. 1985) series of analog photographs unfolds intimate, tender scenes within a complex and difficult period. Working on the home front, Greenberg documents the routines of war—moments when the domestic sphere briefly became an active arena, but more often remained a site where life persisted. Focused largely on family space, the photographs assemble a quiet syntax of the everyday: sirens, laundry, headlines marked “cleared for publication,” shared meals, tears, and sleep.
While artillery roars in the distance, birthdays are still celebrated. White shirts hang to dry in the sun like a civilian flag of truce. Filtered light continues to enter the home, offering brief respite. A superhero doll left casually on a car dashboard gestures toward a childlike hope for a cinematic resolution—one in which good inevitably prevails.
Against this persistence of objects and gestures, human figures appear cropped, partial, almost incidental. The surrounding landscape follows the same logic: nature remains beautiful, but not peaceful; the road is open yet refuses to extend into the distance. Through this tension, Greenberg’s photographs offer not escape, but closeness—a plea for intimacy amid uncertainty.
 
Noga Greenberg (b. 1985) is an Israeli artist, photographer, art educator, and editor of Punctum, a magazine dedicated to analog photography. She is a graduate of the Photography Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She lives in Jerusalem and works at Artists’ Studios Teddy.