Station to Station

Station to Station 4: The two towers
This series will soon arrive at Nitzana. Doors open on the left. The next stop is Nablus. This will be the last stop. Thank you for riding with Elisha Baskin and me. (for the full, four part project, click here) The country is magnetic. Several energy fields hide in the terrain, emitting the land’s intensity and…
By Yuval Ben-Ami October 29, 2015
Station to station 3: We the living
In a land of rampant commercialism, abandonment isn’t the worst thing that could happen to an historical railway station. Elisha Baskin photographs — and insists on riding the kiddy train. (for the full, four part project, click here) Once upon a time, the good people of this land were able to travel by train from the…
By Yuval Ben-Ami October 22, 2015
Station to Station 2: The phantom line
In a strange feat of partial resurrection, half of the railway between Haifa and Damascus is being fixed for reuse. Elisha Baskin’s lens and Yuval Ben-Ami’s pen follow it, focusing on the decaying and embalmed, rather than the freshly welded.   (for the full, four part project, click here) For the next leg of the journey,…
By Yuval Ben-Ami October 15, 2015
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Station to Station 1: The fenced failure
A journey to the Holy Land’s disused railway stations begins with a sonnet of concrete. Digital and disposable camera photography by Elisha Baskin. (for the full, four part project, click here) There is an old railway station in south Tel Aviv. It isn’t really so old by local standards, being 80 years younger than the…
By Yuval Ben-Ami October 8, 2015
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