Artists

 

                           Guy Gilad A master photographer           

 1977                                                             – 2021

Guy Gilad was born in Israel , Kibbutz Nir-Am. After military service in submarines, he traveled for a year in South America, where he understood, while taking pictures, that he would like to be a photographer.

Upon his return to Israel, he was accepted to study photography with a scholarship at Hadassah College in Jerusalem. Already as a photography student, his talent was defined by his teachers as a trailblazer and someone who was ahead of his time.

He started as an independent photographer. He made his way through difficulties but with determination and perseverance. Slowly and patiently, he won his place as a high-quality, appreciated, and sought-after fashion photographer. However, his photographs broke out in other diverse directions.He was a “person of people” in his personal-social life – “he touched everyone’s heart”, and was an inspiration- said his friends and some people in the world of photography. People for him were an inexhaustible source of interest and a challenge to touch the inner personality worlds. He was good at producing a photograph of a person and sights of the world that would provoke a significant observation, linger in contemplation and even feeling that there is a “story” behind the sight.

Guy Gilad managed to combine the commercial side (many of his photographs were invited by customers) and the creative-spiritual side that was always in his soul, his observant eye and his professional abilities. As an artist he was able to formulate ‘his own language’, defined by a well-known art curator.

Guy Gilad was a person full of curiosity, originality, love of life, humor, and joy.  Above of all these, he was searching for meaning and insights in the depth of human existence. And all these were `tools` in his creative way.

His short life was cut with great pain at the age of 44 . But he left a huge collection of photographs as indelible traces of his life and work.

Guy lived his last years in Ramat Gan with his wife, two sons.

www.guygilad-photos.com – Link to the website of Guy`s very successful exhibition in Tel-Aviv-  more than 5000 visitors.