News

This page will be updated periodically and provide information regarding my activities as well as other important and pertinent photographic events.

March 1, 2016 – The Tel Aviv Suitcase! After over a quarter century the negatives of Moi Ver have just been discovered by his son and grand daughter while putting order in the archives. A mysterious dusty suitcase revealed an assortment of biscuit boxes containing all the negatives including the frames from Ci-Contre and Paris books, the photographs from Vilnius and Poland as well as his work created in Palestine from the mid 1930s on. See details.

February 28, 2015 – Inaugurated new exhibition of Israeli artist Nir Evron at the Jerusalem Artists’ House. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.

December 14, 2014 – Currently working for the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography on a new exhibition and book on Manuel Alvarez Bravo that will shed light on hitherto undisclosed facets of his art.

Concurrently preparing an exhibition of the most recent work of Israeli artist Nir Evron to open at the Jerusalem Artists’ House on February 21, 2015.

September 26, 2014 – Beginning work with photographer Tomer Ganihar towards a new exhibition. The subject of the show is kept secret for the moment.

September 22, 2014 – We are currently representing two Israeli photographers: Oren Lukatz, and Aviram Valdman.

June 28, 2014 – A panel discussion on The Role of Photography in Contemporary Art will take place at Christie’s, London with the participation of Shalom Shpilman, President and Founder of the Shpilman Institute for Photography (SIP), Tel Aviv, Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of the Photographs, Word & Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and myself. The event is in conjunction with the contemporary art sale on July 2 that will offer a number of important contemporary photographs to be sold for the benefit of the SIP.

April 12, 2014 – Panel discussion at AIPAD: The Deciders: Curating Photography, with Corey Keller, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dr. Nissan Perez, Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv; Jeff Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Johan Sjöström, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden. Moderator: Lyle Rexer.