Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa, the home ground of Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club, is documented here in the midst of its transformation - between demolition and reconstruction. For Dagan, a lifelong supporter of the team, Bloomfield was a second home, a sacred site, a place of pilgrimage. It is a space saturated with collective and personal emotion: joy, sorrow, pain, passion, love, and disappointment.
Now stripped of its grandeur - bare, exposed, shapeless - she returns not as a fan in the stands but as a silent witness to its dismantling. She walks among empty terraces, past detached seats that serve as the last traces of human presence, faded advertisements, railings leading nowhere, and a massive mound of earth at the center of what was once a vibrant green field.
Each photograph is an act of farewell - a gesture of holding onto memory before it disappears. The gaze is not nostalgic; it is tender yet direct. Dagan does not attempt to beautify the ruins. Instead, Bloomfield becomes a site of uprooted memory, a document of a process but also of the loss of a home, of a familiar place turning foreign.
The series captures the final breath before disappearance, before the new structure conceals the emotional fullness of what once existed. It is not architectural documentation but a poetic record of parting - an attempt to preserve the heartbeat of a place once filled with collective presence. In its emptiness, the stadium becomes a space of small, intimate elegies: for memories that will not return, for a childhood dissolving, for a home temporarily without its roof of dreams.
Untitled (1), Inkjet Print, 60×48 cm, 2017
Untitled (2), Inkjet Print, 60×48 cm, 2017
Untitled (3), Inkjet Print, 60×48 cm, 2017
Untitled (4), Inkjet Print, 60×48 cm, 2017