Photographer Alex Levac sees things the average person on the street doesn’t catch.

When we meet up at his Tel Aviv apartment, a stone’s throw away from the beach, I ask the evergreen octogenarian, who was awarded the Israel Prize for his groundbreaking photography 20 years ago, where the notion of snapping incongruous yet complementary overlaps first emerged.

“I don’t know. Perhaps I got it from the French photographers, like Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson,” he suggests bringing the lauded humanist documentarists into the philosophical equation. “But, it was mostly a British photographer called Tony Ray-Jones.”

Those men were powerful sources of inspiration, who shined a bright light on his own path to visual expression, Levac says.

“I didn’t invent anything. You know, yo

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