I have used a camera as a means to write my diary for as long as i can remember. However it was during my 3 year service in the military that i realized it had a deeper purpose- it was my way of making sense of the world.

   Soon after the army i set on a 6 month backpacking trip across the far east and bought my first Canon EOS5 35mm; the Mamiya 645 joined a few years later and are with me wherever i go. (still no digital unless on a commercial shoot)

   Landing in NY after that journey in '99, i switched my major at Columbia University from Economics to a Visual Arts and Philosophy double major. have been shooting and writing in NYC ever since.

   During my travels it became clear how widely different ways of life and means of happiness can there be across different paths we choose and convictions we subscribe to- that notion led to my book 'Theory of Wants', subsequently published by Damiani in '08.

   In my recent work, i have been working on what happens after you've surveyed the field and figured out who you are, under the working title "2 Klicks South of Wonderland".

   Wonderland is not a place you can pin down on a map.

   It tends to shift a few miles whenever you think you've reached it.

   It's a place none of us inhabit constantly,
but some of us constantly seek.

   It's more of an idea than a place; yet the mere act of searching for it ought to keep our sights set in the right direction.

   It takes marching to your own drumbeat.

War- a short film about war and human nature
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   EDUCATION:

    1999-‘03: Columbia University, Visual Arts/ Philosophy BA. NYC.

   MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS:

    2010: Impressions from the Rabbit Hole, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC.

    2004: New York New Work Group Show; Ayelet Aldouby & Doron Polak
Curators. Givataim Museum, Israel.

   SOLO SHOWS:

    2010: Warriors, S&S gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.

    2009: In/Wards, Via Di Mille, NYC.

    2008: Theory of Wants Solo Show and Book Launch, Milk Gallery, NYC.

    2005: Venture Solo Show, Neel Edeling Curator, Richard Avadon
Studio, NYC.

AUCTIONS:

    2010: Sotheby’s ‘Tools for Thought’, NYC.

    2009: Sotheby's New York Academy of Art Auction, NYC.

    2007: Philips de Pury, Sensi Auction, NYC.


   GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

    2010: Wildly Different Things, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin.

    2007: Resident Artist Group Show, CVZ Contemporary, NYC.

2006: Through the looking glass; Resident Photographer’s show at CVZ
Contemporary, NYC.

    2005: CVZ Contemporary Video Works Showcase & Previews of works on
paper by Matt Jones and Photography by Ohad Maiman.

    2003: Wants, Traveling Art-Book Group Show. Doron Polak Curator.

    2002: Substance Group Show, Lerner Hall Gallery, Columbia
University.

   BOOKS:

    2008: 'Theory of Wants', Published by Damiani Editore.

    2003: 'Wants', Final Independent study guided by Dana Hoey.


   PUBLICATIONS:

   
2007: Shooting and Thinking, Featured Cover Story. Yedi’oth
A’haronot, NYC.

    2007: Little White Dress/Little Black Dress, Photo Editorial,
La’Isha Magazine, Israel.

    2006: Featured Photographer, Find Magazine Summer Issue, NYC.