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Oded Balilty

Oded Balilty is an Israeli photojournalist for the Associated Press who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

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Occupation: photographer, journalist, photojournalist

Oded Balilty was born in 1979 in Jerusalem

Oded Balilty was born on March 30, 1979, in Jerusalem, where he grew up.

He started out as a photographer for the army magazine Bamahane. After his discharge he worked for the Zoom 77 photo agency and the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

In 2002 he joined the Associated Press. In 2007 he won the Pulitzer Prize for a photo from the evacuation of the Amona outpost on February 1, 2006, showing a lone young woman facing security officers. From 2007 to 2008 he was based in Beijing and photographed across China for AP.

He lives in Tel Aviv and covers news and documentary stories in Israel and abroad. In July 2020 he photographed protester Nimrod Gross waving an Israeli flag against a water cannon in Jerusalem, an image that inspired the sculpture by Itay Zalait. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

Milestones in Oded Balilty's life

1979
Born in Jerusalem.
2000
Held the joint exhibition Reflected Reality with artist Anna Shapira in Tel Aviv.
2002
Joined the Associated Press.
2007
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
2007
Won first place in the World Press Photo People in the News category.
2015
Held the solo exhibition Sabra Traces at the Eretz Israel Museum.
2018
Held the solo exhibition Front at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
2020
Photographed a protester facing a water cannon in Jerusalem.