Oded Yedaya

Oded Yedaya was born in 1949 in Hanita

Oded Yedaya was born in 1949 and grew up on Kibbutz Hanita. He served as an officer in Sayeret Matkal.

He studied photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. After returning to Israel, he began his art career, working mainly on family photography. He published a photo book and held an exhibition titled Personal Document.

He published 3 photo books, drawn from exhibitions shown at the Israel Museum, the Herzliya Museum and other galleries. His works often add handwritten or printed text to photographs and deal with the political role of photography. One exhibition showed photos of protests against the separation barrier.

He set up and ran the academic program of the Camera Obscura school and taught at the University of Haifa and other schools. He was the photography critic of the newspaper Ha'Ir. In 2005 he founded the Minshar School of Art, which he heads.

In 2021 he published his first prose book, Bergad. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, writer Ronit Yedaya, and has 2 daughters. In November 2025 he was injured when settlers threw stones at olive harvest participants in Burin.