Shabbat Candles, 2019
Threshold, 2019
Keeping Time, 2019
Washing the Dead (Funeral for a Beetle), 2019
Coyote Shadow, 2019
Tzitzit (Threads), 2019
Mikveh Immersion, 2019
Winter Solstice Shabbat, 2020
Tallit, 2019
Pressed Into Flesh, 2018
Havdalah Cup, 2019
By the Window, 2019
Lulav, 2019
I Loved the World With You (Mistranslation), 2019
Sunset in Jerusalem, 2020
An Inherited Shadow, 2018
Honey Fists, 2018
Rest, 2020
Saltwater, 2019
"Altman’s use of tension pulls the viewer into a deeper understanding of Jewish thought, folklore, and metaphor. The photographs are not only thought provoking, they’re paradoxical.
In regards to her work, Altman writes,
'To approach an image in this way is not only to ask what it looks like but asks: what does it remember like?'
Photographing cultural and generational memory, along with its religious ties presents opportunities for metaphor and symbolism. However, Altman’s work goes further to show us the central paradox of photography.
Kavana personalizes something as big as religion while using something as precise as a camera to create mysteries."
—Daniel Seth Krauss, Hannah Altman’s Photobook Kavana: Picturing Jewish Generational Memory, 2022