London based - Israeli artist (b.1985)
I grew up on a Kibbutz, located on the northern Israeli border with Lebanon. In 2009 I moved to Tel Aviv, where I completed a BA Photography in 2013. After years of investigating the Israeli landscape, its geography, historical narratives and my own biography, I left Israel in 2018. In search for a new subject matter, I found myself once again drawn to questions of land and power, belonging and legitimacy...
My photographic practice is concerned with landscape as a complex intersection between culture, geography and autobiography. The effects of human activity on land, political borders and ecology are amongst the issues investigated in my work. The use of large format camera and film creates a multi-layered photographic perspective; pictorial and alluring yet seeking to disrupt traditional modes of landscape representation.
Portrait by Tom Medwell @tommedwell
2018 – 2020 Royal College of Art, MA Photography
2009 – 2013 Minshar College (Tel Aviv), BA Photography
Awards:
2020 - The Genesis Postgraduate Bursary Award – Commended Project
2020 - Prix Levallois, finalist, Galerie L’Escale, Levallois (France)
2019 - Voies Off Awards, finalist, Arles (France)
2017 - Local Testimony, winner ‘Photographed Story’, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2017 - Meitar Photography Award, finalist, Photo IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2017 - Magnum Photography Awards by Lensculture, finalist, London (UK)
2014 - Sony World Photography Awards, 1st place - landscape, London (UK)
Selected Exhibitions:
2020 – London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
2020 – English Encounters, Fordham University Gallery, NYC (Online)
2020 – "with fists, it kicks, it bites", Webber Gallery, London (UK)
2020 – Final Not Over, Unit 1 Gallery, London (UK)
2020 – RCA2020 (online)
2019 – 2020 – Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery // South London Gallery (UK)
2020 – IPE162, Royal Photographic Society House, Bristol (UK)
2019 – PhEST International Photography Festival, Monopoli (Italy)
2019 – Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Marrakech (Morocco)
2019 – Addis FotoFest, Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia)
2018 – The Way We Live Now, Aperture Gallery, New York (USA)
2018 – Encontros da Imagem, Braga (Portugal)
2018 – Fotofestiwal, Lodz (Poland)
2018 – ONE Gallery, Critical Mass, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
2017 – Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum (Greece)
2017 – Fresh Paint, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2017 – Location, Location, Location, Ildiko Butler Gallery, New York (USA)
2017 – Local Testimony, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Selected Publications (online):
Act On Your Future foundation - The Human Rights Photography Prize 2020 website
ARTS THREAD - Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
Phest 2019, "See beyond the See"
Harper’s Magazine (November 2018 issue)
Aperture.org/blog, July 2017 - The Way We Live Now Artists
Curious Photo Blog, April 2018 (Pictura Gallery)
Lovecamden.org, May 2018 - Interview prior to the Exhibition "Nof" at Camden Market
Fordham Nesw, Sep 2017 - "Location Location Location"
floatmagazine.us - Along The Break, 2017
Urbanutica.com, May 2017 Interview with Irith Gubi
Lensculture.com - Along The Break (2017)