About The Sea' Trailer
6:19 min
A short video documentation of ‘Say Something About The Sea’ by Asaf Einy, a new photography book which straddles the line between documentary and fashion photography, examining conceptions of masculinity amongst black and brown communities in the Middle East.
Einy’s interest in the sea is rooted in the story of his grandfather’s immigration to Israel from Casablanca, a port city in Morocco. Upon arriving, he asked the authorities to settle near the sea. Instead, they sent him to live in an agricultural settlement in the south of the country. Out of his unfulfilled passion for the sea, the grandfather, a farmer by profession, began making sculptures of ships covered in seashells. This yearning – for the endless, stormy sea – and its sublimation into the artistic act, is but one of the various narratives interwoven throughout this book.
Fantasy reappears in Einy’s body of work like a common thread – between the sea as an object of desire and as an analogy for the turbulent soul of the teenage boy….Einy’s main preoccupation is displays of masculinity. Many of his works examine the male body, some even contain an implicit eroticism. However, they operate outside the boundaries of the mainstream homosexual discourse. They offer a fresh, broad view of masculinity and its manifestations, especially in its developmental stages of adolescence and early adulthood.
Dori Alon
