Abbey Road – Cover

It was the second time that my son’s wife informed me of an Israeli photography contest, and the second time that I won a price. This time it was a photography a contest entitled ‘Senior Citizens in Photography” announced by the “Ministry for Social Equality” in summer 2020, in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic attack on this high risk population.

The goal of this contest was to create a photographic reproduction of an album cover or of a famous movie poster, using senior citizens as models.

After selecting a location near my home, I went there one afternoon with armed with my gear with the idea to reproduce Abbey Road’s cover, the last of The Beatles’ albums. To shoot this iconic photograph, Lain Macmillan was given 10 minutes of no traffics, by the local British Police. I used the halfhearted Covid-19 lockdown, which gave me a lot more time to work on the photograph, albeit with some traffics still, and a few confused drivers.

The photograph I created  (at the top of this post) won me a third place.

To create this photograph I used a tripod, a remote controller and a chair. The vacant streets enabled me to quickly change clothes behind my car’s open door, without being arrested for public nudity. The following photograph explains how did I create the photograph.

I almost fell twice.

Although it is not directly related to the photographic assignment, the photograph below is the one I like the best as a single standalone photograph, I quickly pressed the shutter when the motorcycle was passing between me and the camera.

This post was first posted in my Hebrew blog on January 3^rd, 2021.