What lies behind those closed portals you pass by as you wander the old sections of Jerusalem or Tzfas?
“I had a good camera and a good eye and spent most of my summers in the bungalow colony running after my children, capturing their summer experiences,” Devorie says.
For about 15 years, Devorie worked as a travel agent in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where she lived, but her summer hobby took off anyway. Other bungalow colony moms wanted in on the photo shoots, and despite Devorie’s protests at the time that she wasn’t a professional photographer, she developed a seasonal gig taking family and children’s portraits in the country.
“I’d go to my sister’s bungalow colony as well, take photos of my nieces and nephews, and then of course, her friends wanted me to photograph their kids, and it just kind of spiraled from there,” Devorie remembers. “I’d set up shoots on the beach for families who didn’t go to the bungalow colonies, and just like that, I sort of fell into the field of photography.”
Devorie had been working as a professional photographer for almost ten years when she received a call from a bungalow colony client who wanted her to give a photography class to the women of Mekimi, an organization for families of sick children. The Mekimi mothers got together weekly for some respite, and the organization would arrange a fun activity for them. The women wanted to learn photography, and the Mekimi volunteer thought of Devorie.
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