portraits

One by one, a class of sixth-graders read aloud a passage and title that each has selected to go with one of Zion Ozeri\’s striking black-and-white portraits.

Seated with the young critics at Morasha Jewish Day School, the New York photographer seems pleased when students accurately discern the context of his untitled images, which the students have filtered through their study of Jewish values.

Neither does he hesitate to crib from one who summoned a particularly apt metaphor for a photo of candle lighting. \”What was that title?\” he asked, scrambling for pen and paper during a morning-long session last month.