abraham project

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    TOBY COHEN’S THE ABRAHAM PROJECT: A VISIONARY ANGEL

    TOBY COHEN’S THE ABRAHAM PROJECT: A VISIONARY ANGEL By Adam B. Schonbrun A visit to the Engel Gallery on 26 Gordon Street , Tel Aviv, Israel (Telephone: 972-3-5225637) is imperative. Toby Cohen is a gifted, I think brilliant, photographer who hails from London and is a permanent resident in Israel. He has brought out of the desert of our daily lives, something inspired, an intuitive aesthetic wide-lens portrayal of the Genesis narrative of Abraham and the Angels. The show is filled with Midrashic insights & the eternal beauty of the Negev Wilderness.   Cohen says to this interviewer that it took him months to find the right tree in the…