Backroads

Backroads is a retrospective of Daniel Tchetcik’s career, spanning over 25 years. Through a collection of works and, for the first time, poems published by the artist, the book unveils Tchetchik’s artistic meandering paths. The book’s title embodies Tchetchik’s way of seeing and working: tracing the BackRoads, choosing the unconventional, exploring the roads less traveled, and discovering paths yet to be found. 

The book was published and is supported by Kibbutz Be’eri. 

“Every photograph is a small doorway into a parallel world, a path we didn't take. Fragments of stories, memories or wishes, daydreams—some of which don't belong to you—distant music from another land. It's all so familiar, isn't it?”

- Curator Sofie Berzon MacKie

The 120-page book juxtaposes works from various series, weaving together romantic compositions with wild, untamed landscapes. The works reflect on social and ecological themes while suggesting introspections on the photographic medium itself. Combining abstract with figurative, delicacy and intensity, urbanity and nature, pleasant and disturbing, the works form a tapestry of human experience. 

Backroads is an observation and artistic examination of our cosmic existence - a metaphysical journey between the known and the unknown. It positions the reader as a wanderer, navigating images that feel both familiar and alien. Each photograph and poem becomes a fragment of the existential narrative, echoing the cyclical, interconnected nature of life.