Joel Dzodin

From 11 years ago, its original title still holds true today, perhaps even moreso in 2025 than back then:

"With the terrible things happening now, is it OK to just take a momentary break and simply post a photo of life in my neighborhood."

Jerusalem/Arnona
July 8, 2014

"A Passionate Discussion - Group shot with Pops Donaldson"

Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign
Resurrection City
Washington, DC.
May-June 1968.

Copyright Joel S. Dzodin

#PoorPeoplesCampaign #CivilRightsMovement #HumanRights #ResurrectionCity1968 #MartinLutherKing #NonViolence

"Back to the Future; A True Believer, 1968."

I remember the raucous pandemonium of the George Wallace rally that night as this Wallace supporter yelled "F*ck you hippies!"

Photographed in available light at Cobo Hall, Detroit, using my Yashica-D twin-lens reflex camera, of blessed memory.

Fifty-four years and thousands of kilometers separate these two images of young people who saw injustice and peacefully took to the streets, trying to force a change for the better.

#capturinghistory
#marchingforjustice

"In the Cave of Frozen Dreams."

(Another discarded halved, squeezed lemon and crushed egg shell fragment from the kitchen trash, using LED flashlight illumination.)

Photographed with a mid-1970s Nikon Micro-Nikkor lens.

#mundanebeauty
#macrophotography

With a bit of light and shadow, a work of art emerges from the kitchen trash. (A discarded halved, squeezed lemon, using LED flashlight illumination.)

Photographed with a mid-1970s Nikon Micro-Nikkor lens.

#mundanebeauty
#macrophotography

"A Young Drummer in Resurrection City."
Poor People's Campaign,
Washington, DC
May, 1968

I'm against colorizing other people's work, if done without the original creator's consent. But I've allowed myself some latitude.
#PoorPeoplesCampaign1968
#civilrightsmovement
#ResurrectionCity1968

My image of Temple Mount/הַר הַבַּיִת/الحرم الشريف, photographed while the sun was at a sharp low angle.

It often makes me think of the song "Jerusalem of Iron" by the late Meir Ariel, which itself was based on Naomi Shemer's famous song "Jerusalem of Gold".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar7l...

"Timeless and Eternal"

Dead Sea region
November 17, 2020

#photography
#nature_photography
#Dead_Sea
#Judaean_Desert