Lili Almog

Lili Almog was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv

Lili Almog was born in Tel Aviv in 1961. She grew up in a matriarchal Israeli home.

From 1983 to 1985 she studied at the Camera Obscura art school in Tel Aviv. She then moved to New York. In 1992 she completed a master's degree with honors at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

She began in commercial and press photography, and her pictures appeared in Israeli papers such as Haaretz, Hadashot and Monitin. In New York she shot fashion and portraits and recorded the city's nightlife in black and white. Over time she turned to photographing only women.

Her series include Bed Sequence, Perfect Intimacy on cloistered Carmelite nuns, and The Other Half of the Sky on minority women in rural China. Between Presence and Absence shows Bauhaus houses at Kibbutz Beit Oren damaged in the Carmel fire. Later projects include Down to Earth and The Space Within.

Her work has been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Israel Museum. In 2002 she left Manhattan and now lives and works in New Jersey.