Goni Riskin

Goni Riskin is a photographer and artist based in Tel Aviv. She has completed the postgraduate program in Fine Art at Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College. Her work as a photographer has been featured in prominent local publications, including Time Out-Tel Aviv, Ha'aretz, Ma'arive, Telavivian, and many others. Riskin's work includes both fine art and commercial photography. She specializes in portraits, fashion, nightlife, live music, etc. For over a decade she has been documenting the Tel Aviv scene and participated in several exhibitions.

Under the Restrictions #3

In the third chapter of her column, Goni Riskin takes advantage of the easing of the restrictions to make a series of portraits, with styling and makeup. As a precaution, she works on a rooftop, in natural light and open air. She uses a no-contact thermometer to take the temperature of her sitters, the makeup artist, and herself. She keeps the styling down to clothes from the sitters' closets, with outside loans of items when absolutely necessary.

Under the Restrictions #2

Goni Riskin joined a residency program at Arthura – a new center for art, design, and community in Emek Hefer (Hefer valley), in central Israel. She has chosen to take mostly pictures of the elderly population, in an attempt to understand how to create interaction while maintaining social distancing and wearing masks and gloves.

Under the Restrictions #1

In her new column, Goni Riskin looks at how she might continue to photograph under the coronavirus restrictions. In the first installment she creates a series of portraits while trying to observe the rules, which are often not entirely clear: stay within a 100-meters range from home, and then it's 500 meters; maintain a distance of two meters from other people; avoid entertaining at home people who do not live there.