Situated in the fine line between photojournalism and fine art, the practice of Pavel Wolberg (*1966, Leningrad former USSR; lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo) represents a uniquely uncompromising approach to realism. Wolberg’s photographs encapsulate a kind of contradiction we experience in our everyday life: each image is seemingly easy to describe – where it takes place, the elements depicted, the scenario captured – and yet, once analyzed more closely, we realize that the essence of each image is hard to pin down. The lack of any compromise in the way Wolberg’s pictures are taken – indeed, one has to marvel at the sheer courage and ingenuity that they entail – is matched only by the level of complexity contained therein.