Over a period of two years, Friedman used the camera lens to study the life of “invisible people” – Thai foreign workers. He attempts to uncover in this project what they do when the go “home” and if they indeed have a “home.” With feeling, and in his own special way, Friedman succeeds in penetrating their private world and takes the viewer to the caravans, houses, clubs, places of entertainment and leisure time activities of the bustling Thai community – all this in a colorful and all-encompassing project.
Friedman’s camera angles penetrate the existing expanse, hit the viewer in his “soft spot,” and focus his attention ”up close” on the significance of foreign workers’ existence in Israel.
The colors of the photographs are soft, enveloping, and warm and show the sensitivity Friedman brings to this documentary.
Asaf Friedman was born in 1983 in Hod Hasharon Israel and began his documentary film career in 2002. Friedman, a lover of nature and people, uses photography as a way to express ideas that occur to him and people’s inner word. “Photography is my way of learning about people, different ways of life, andthe expression of meanings, thoughts and ideas”