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Igor Zeiger

Igor Zeiger is an Israeli photographer and curator, born in Tashkent in 1977.

born 1977Fine art photographyFounding Beam CollectiveExhibitions in Israel and abroad

Born: 16 April 1977, Tashkent
Occupation: photographer, curator
Education: Tashkent State University of Economics

Igor Zeiger was born in 1977 in Tashkent

Igor Zeiger was born on April 16, 1977, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His father, Mark Zeiger, was an engineer, and his mother, Larisa Yavetz, was a schoolteacher. He earned a master's degree in communications from Tashkent University of Information Technologies.

He moved to Israel in 2000. He lived first on kibbutz Ramat Hashofet and then in Rehovot, and moved to Tel Aviv in 2011. He now divides his time between Italy and Jaffa.

Zeiger taught himself documentary photography. He later studied at the Studio Gavra School of Photography and finished in 2012. His mentors included David Adika, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz and Nissan N. Perez.

In 2015 one of his photographs appeared on the cover of the magazine Israeli Lens. In 2018 he founded the artistic cooperative Beam Collective with Maria Rosenblatt and Erica Tal-Shir. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Israel, the United States, Germany and Italy.