Eminent photographer Nurit Yardeni is showing off her work in the UK.

Self-taught Ms Yardeni’s latest exhibition, A Dream of Fair Women, is currently running at Dimbola Galleries and Photographic Museum in the Isle of White. The subject? Women. Ms Yardeni tells People: “I chose to focus on women for two reasons. I understand women better than men as I think they are multi-faceted. Women are ‘Mother Earth’. I like the tenderness, the softness in them, often combined with decisiveness and strong facial features. I am fascinated by this. Wherever I go, I meet tender yet determined women and photograph their faces. Each woman has her specific interesting face. I can feel what they feel when I look in their eyes and I try to express this in my images.”

The exhibition is the result of photographic expeditions to several countries including Mongolia, Tibet and Peru. Her favourite picture is from Africa. “There was a woman who was very ill and thought she was going to die. Tribe elders advised her that due to a promise she had not kept, in order to survive she must eat red sand and fulfil her promise. I personally thought she must have been bitten by a spider but her sadness and sorrow touched me deeply. Her picture hangs in my bedroom.”

A grandmother-of-two, Mrs Yardeni has been taking photos for 30 years. “The medium of photography helps me convey my impressions and inner feelings the moment I capture the image. At that precise moment, I am who I am to myself and the world around me. I love the complexity of human beings and the ability photography gives me to express in print what I see and feel.”

The exhibition runs until February 7, 2010.