Freeze frame: ‘Post’s photographer Marc Sellem honored as one of year's best

"I was on my way to leave [for the day] and I turned back for one last look at the area," he explained. "That's when I saw the scene and that's when I got the photograph."

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Updated: DECEMBER 20, 2018 10:08
Miriam (R) and Neryah (L) look up at their baby in a settlement (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Miriam (R) and Neryah (L) look up at their baby in a settlement
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
A photograph by Marc Israel Sellem, The Jerusalem Post’s chief photographer, has been named one of the year’s best by the Eretz Israel Museum’s “Local Testimony” photojournalism exhibit.
The photograph (right), taken on April, took the top prize in the single photograph section of the “Society and Community” category.
“It is an honor to win this prize, because it is a competition of the best photographers in Israel,” Sellem said.
The photograph shows Miriam, Neryah and their child seated on a couch on a hilltop in the West Bank. Neryah hoists the baby in the air, as his wife smiles at their child.
“I was on my way to leave [for the day] and I turned back for one last look at the area,” he explained. “That’s when I saw the scene, and that’s when I took the photograph.”
The selected photographs from 7,000 submissions will be presented in an exhibition of press photography at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, through February 2019. The exhibition is being curated in conjunction with the World Press Photo Foundation.