About this Event
No Direction Home brings together photographs by Levi Shagalow made between Crown Heights and Berlin, tracing the pull between the world he was raised in and the one he entered. Raised in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights community within Chabad-Lubavitch, an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic tradition, Levi grew up in a life shaped by religious structure, clarity, and expectation. After moving to Berlin to study psychology at Touro University, he encountered new forms of freedom that loosened the certainties of his upbringing and opened space for exploration, possibility, and at times, confusion.
This series reflects that ongoing tension - the distance between two ways of living, and the shifting movement between them. Through portraits, scenes, and moments marked by closeness and distance, the work traces what it means to be pulled in multiple directions while trying to make sense of both worlds.
Levi has developed a parallel commercial and documentary practice in Berlin, photographing for creative agencies, cultural events, and visual projects across the city. His work has been published in NZZ, and his portrait series on eighteen Jewish individuals living in Germany - exploring contemporary Jewish life - was published as a book by Hentrich & Hentrich under the title Shemoneh Esrei.
No Direction Home marks Levi Shagalow’s first vernissage and exhibition in Berlin.
This is a one-night-only vernissage at Galerie Jergon.
Opening: December 11 at 18:00.
All are welcome.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jergon, Wrangelstraße 76, Berlin, Germany
GBP 0.00
