Photographer Frédéric Brenner had never seen a 5m dining table before he sat down to dinner with this Ashkenazi family in Israel. When he learned that the eldest daughter was about to get married, he knew he had to take the picture at that moment, 'before there was one less child at the table'. → Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery
Brenner's series An Archaeology Of Fear And Desire, is an exploration of the fragments that make up the fabric of Israeli society. → Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
Brenner is interested not just in Jews, but in how people of all religions live alongside each other in Israel.→ Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
'The narratives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been competing with each other for 2,000 years, and the country has an incredible opportunity to have the three talk together – an opportunity we are missing.' → Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
Brenner does not want to provide any answers in his work. → Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
Ultimately, he wants the viewer to do the work: 'I offer no resolution.' Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
Frédéric Brenner’s An Archeology Of Fear And Desire, the third book in the This Place series, is published by Mackbooks. A touring exhibition opens in Prague in October. Photograph: Frederic Brenner courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
