Photographer #296: Guy Aroch

Guy Aroch, 1971, Israel, focuses on fashion, beauty and celebrity photography. In 1988 he moved to New York to persue a career in photography and in 1993 he graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Today he works both in the USA and Europe. He describes his photography as modern pictures with a sexy, dreamy, nostalgic twist. He has worked for major clients including Diesel, Tommy Hilfiger and L'Oreal. His editorial work has appeared in magazines as Vibe, Vogue and GQ magazine. Ashton Kutcher, Christina Ricci and Michael Pitt are amongst the list of celebrities Guy has worked with. His photographs are beautifully lit, strong, sharp yet soft and sometimes magical. The following images come from various shoots.

Website: www.guyaroch.com

Photographer #199: Michael Ackerman

American photographer Michael Ackerman, 1967, Israel, works and lives in Berlin. Recently his third book Half Life came out. It contains images that focus on Poland and Berlin. Michael shows us his view of the world, made up of feelings as love, anxiety and obsessions. His photography is easily recognized due to his very dark and gritty images. His photography is a reflection of his personal malaise, his doubts and anguish. The following images come from the story Half Life, his Portrait portfolio and the story Smoke.

Website: www.agencevu.com

Photographer #166: Shai Kremer

Shai Kremer, 1974, Israel, lives and works in New York. In his project Infected Landscape, with which he has had several solo exhibitions in the last few years, he focused on the effect of the military on the Iraeli landscape. Since 2002 he has been working on a series in New York. Instead of concentrating on the elements that make New York great, he takes us on a journey past the "less-explored". The following images come from the projects New York, Fallen Empires and Desert.

Website: www.shaikremer.com

Photographer #101: Gal Harpaz

Gal Harpaz, Israel, 1971, is a photographer that uses polaroids to make his long and stretched images. Gal calls these images Polaramas which are several polaroids put together to make one image. Besides using this technique when travelling around the world, he also uses it on probably his most precious subject; his son Theo. His son is not only in many of his Polaramas, but also in a series called Theo-Roids where he documents the life of Theo. In his series Wood, he makes stories with polaroids, mounted on wood and laquered. The following images come from Polaramas: Los Angeles, Travel and Theo and from Wood.

Website: www.galharpaz.com

Photographer #064: Michal Chelbin

Photographer Michal Chelbin, Israel, 1974, just released her second monograph called The Black Eye. In 2008 she released the book Strangely Familiar, human stories somewhere between the odd and the ordinary. It is a series of portraits of often small-town performers, kids and dwarfs. The images are private moments in which Michal tries to address everyday questions of life. The following images are from Strangely Familiar.

The following images come from the series The Chapels.

Website: www.michalchelbin.com

Photographer #035: Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander, Israel, 1961, lives and works in London. He is a photographer with a vast amount of projects behind his name. In a three year period he has gone upstream the Yangtze River in China documenting the development and economic rise of China and it's concequences. He was awarded the Prix Pictet in 2009 for this series.

Nadav has also photographed the entire administration of Barack Obama. The New York Times published the photographs, making it the largest collection of photographs ever published in the Times by one single photographer.

Website: www.nadavkander.com

Photographer #028: Elinor Carucci

Elinor Carucci, 1971, is a photographer from Israel. She photographs her own life. She pays attention to details and makes the audience into a voyeur of her life. The photographs can at some points be confronting and uncomforting as there is no shame in them. The photographs are very recognizable from anyone's life and have a poetic feel to them. The following pictures are from the series: Closer, Crisis and from her latest project about her children.

Website: www.elinorcarucci.com