Naomi Leshem

Naomi Leshem was born in 1963 in Jerusalem

Naomi Leshem was born in Jerusalem on 3 November 1963. She is a second-generation Holocaust survivor and became an IDF widow at a young age.

In 1984-1985 she studied languages and general studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1987 she graduated from the Department of Photography at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem.

Her work deals with life alongside death, shaped by her personal history and by the shared Israeli experience. She works in conceptual series, using a square format and analog film in a Hasselblad camera. Her series Sleepers shows teenagers asleep in their rooms in Israel, Switzerland, Germany, France and the United States.

She has shown work in Israel, Europe and the United States. Her photographs are held by the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art in Florida. She teaches at colleges and art schools and in her own studio.