Shai Kremer's transfixing large-scale color photographs explore contested territory throughout Israel. In this region, conflict has left an indelible imprint on the land and on the psyche of its inhabitants. Kremer's work warns against vestiges of warfare becoming a permanent fixture in people's lives and challenges the viewer to consider the long-term effects of perpetual violence within a society.
Kremer was born in Israel and now divides his time between Tel Aviv and New York. His first monograph Infected Landscape: Israel, Broken Promised Land, will be released in September 2008 by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Among the many honors he has received are the Israel Pais Grant for Art and Culture, and a First Prize in Landscape in the Edut Mekomit (Local Testimony) competition, exhibited in conjunction with World Press Photo. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions world wide, including the Guangzhou Photo Biennale in Canton, China, Loaded Landscape at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Engagement-Contemporary Photography at the Israel Art Museum in Jerusalem, and Disengagement at the Contemporary Art Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. Kremer's photographs are held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem, Contemporary Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, among others.
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