Raphael's Page

Program / Degree

MFA and Journalism diploma.

Member type

Artist, Critic, Other

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Digital, Film, Installation, Photography, Video

I am...

I'm a writer/photographer, experimental film-maker and Co-publisher of Sky of Ink Press... a film and photography instructor.

About my artwork

here are my photo work and shorter films/videos. The photos, taken over many years record landscapes and portraits from across the Yucatan to Labrador, Montreal shop windows to Toronto Island and California. My documentary essays on female impersonators (Facade) and the religious ritual (Holy Week in Spain - Seville) capture ritual as performance and vice versa. In recent short films like A Spanish Tale and Cutlery both memory and identity are a central theme. I'm fascinated by snapshots and the process of uncovering meaning in the traces in daily objects and family snapshots. Currently, I'm working on writing projects, (a novel, some poems and essays). A .chapbook of my poems has just been published by Sky of Ink - SIT-UP. Also editing a selection of photographs for a possible exhibition and book. To contact me go to my facebook account at:
http://www.facebook.com/raphael.bendahan

Artists I like

Chris Marker - Goya - Bacon - Thomas Mann - Rilke - Richard Ford -Beckett
Antonioni _ Pasolini - Michelangelo - Caravagio - Heinrich Boll - Inamuno - Dix - Euripides - Levi - Homer - ted Hughes - Sylvia Plath - Luis Bunuel - Kurosawa and a whole slew of contemporary writers, poets and film-makers as well.

Interests

contemporary artists, films, travel and literary exchanges, residencies abroad.