The Choreography of Time (Yitzhak Navon, Jerusalem)

There’s a rhythm underground in Jerusalem that you don’t expect. At Yitzhak Navon Station, the deepest passenger railway station in the world, time seems to pause for a moment.

Opened in 2018, the modern Yitzhak Navon train station connects Jerusalem with Tel Aviv in under 30 minutes, but instead of rushing through, you find yourself slowing down. Light slips through glass and steel, casting soft reflections on the clean, geometric surfaces. You travel deep beneath the city, yet the space feels open, almost weightless. The Yitzhak Navon Station is quiet, but not empty. People pass through like waves, separate but briefly part of something shared.

I’m always drawn to places like the Yitzhak Navon Station: stairwells, platforms, quiet corners where movement and stillness overlap. Yitzhak Navon Station isn’t just a transit point. It’s a moment of architectural clarity in the heart of Jerusalem - a link between the fast pace of Tel Aviv and something slower, something reflective.

When you take the time to stop just to watch the light shift, you start to notice symmetry, shadow, the curve of a wall, and the expression on a traveler’s face.

That’s what I tried to photograph through my fine art and travel photography at the Yitzhak Navon Station in Jerusalem. Not just the structure itself, but the quiet, passing feeling of being there. The kind of beauty that most people miss as they move through.