The series "Load" (2006) was commissioned by Mr. Yona Fisher, the curator of the Ashdod Museum, in one location in Ashdod city. Ashdod is a middle-classed workers city, highly populated with immigrants, surrounded by desert.

The photographs are of passersby in a site that appears to be a no man’s land, and engaged with this territory as a way of reflecting on the daily, sisyphean lives of the hardworking people photographed.
The body language of the photographed subjects itself comments upon these themes; they appear withdrawn, their gazes are cast down upon the ground and their shadows makes them appear smaller than they are. The contrast between the grey daily movement in the urban wildness and the colorful brightness of the israel sun, increase the difficulties of the individual. The changing pile of ruins in the background
contributes to the sense of an indeterminate space; they appear as signs of urban construction, while simultaneously bespeaking a state of demolition and destruction.
The location was chosen after wandering around the city, searching for the right platform for this local movement in the city. A territory which has no awareness of it's use or state of being: "Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive." (Marx)

Gaston Zvi Ickowicz