Miki Kratsman

Miki Kratsman was born in 1959 in Buenos Aires

Kratsman was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He moved to Israel with his family in 1971, first to an immigrant hostel in Lod and later to Kiryat Ono. Five members of his mother's family disappeared during the military junta in Argentina in the 1970s.

He first met photography in a technical photography track at his high school in Kiryat Ono. He also studied photography at Kiryat Ono College. After combat service in the IDF, he worked for a year as a medical photographer at Ichilov Hospital.

In 1983 he joined the photo lab of the Hadashot newspaper and later became a staff photographer there until it closed. From 1993 to 2012 he worked for Haaretz, where he took photos for Gideon Levy's weekly column on Palestinian life in the territories. His art deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, place, space and borders.

He has taught photography since 1989. He headed the photography department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design from 2006 to 2014. In 2004 he co-founded Breaking the Silence with Yehuda Shaul and Avi Mograbi, and has chaired its board since 2009.

His book Archive Worker was published in 2021. He is married to fashion designer Dorin Frankfurt and has two daughters.