About

Naomi Leshem

was born in Jerusalem in 1963 and lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since 1996, she has taught photography at several universities in Israel, including the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono and, from 1998 to 2005, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Her photographs are in private and public collections in Israel, the United States and Europe and have been exhibited in Israel (Israel Museum Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum), New York and Vienna. Her first exhibition in Switzerland took place in June 2009.

Represented by: Sylva Denzler gallery, Zurich
Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC, New-York
Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel - Aviv.

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Runways the book

Disappearance and death in sites of personal loss in Israel´s landscape. These are images of ambivalent beauty, so close to both life and death.In these photographs, which she took with analog cameras and printed in square formats, the photographer Naomi Leshem, who lives and teaches in Tel Aviv, tells stories of disappearance and death. A road in the Arabah Desert where a young woman died in a motorcycle accident.
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