Contacts:
Ilia Yefimovich
Photographer
Cell: +972 544 25 88 20
website: www.ilia-yefimovich.com
E-mail: iliayefimovich@gmail.com
Working experience:
2025 - Curator “Local Testimony” , Muza Museam Tel-aviv
2017-now: Photographer DPA
2017-2018: Co-Founder of “Coma Images”
2014-2016: Co-Founder of “The Archive Magazine”
2013 - 2015: Teaching photography at “Minshar” art school.
2012 - 2015: Teaching photography at “Massa” Jewish Agency.
2011 – 2017: Freelance photographer for Getty Images.
2009 – 2014: Russian News agency ITAR TASS
Staff photographer covering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
2006 – 2014: RTR Russian state News agency
2009: Zuza magazine
Project photographer “14 cities in 14 days” for Euro-Rail
2006-2009: Russian Magazine “Ogonek”
Awards:
2025: Kolga Award , Tbilisi , Georgia
2024: Prix Bayeux , Finalist Photo category, France
2024: URI AVNERY AWARD FOR COURAGEOUS JOURNALISM
2024: POY Asia , First Place, General News
2024: POYI impact Gaza-Israel , Finalist Award, USA
2024: “Dark Day’s’’ , Kolga Award , Tbilisi , Georgia
2024: Communication Arts 2024 Photography Competition2023: Roi Idan price for War coverage , Local testimony , Tel-aviv, Israel.
2021: Curator choose , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2020: Curator choose , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2019: 1st Place News category , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2017: CMB Award, Under 30, Turin, Italy.
2017: Kolga award, Tbilisi , Georgia
2016: 3d place at News section , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2015: Curator choose , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2014: Curator choose , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2013: 7° International Arte Laguna Prize - Under25- 1st place Award , Venice, Italy.
2011: Photo of the Year , Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2011: Lead Award, Hamburg Germany. Photo of the year.
“Auf crash kurs”
2011: POYI, (Picture of the Year International) Washington DC USA Spot News Award of Excel-
lence. “Run down in Israel.”
2009: Local testimony, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Curators choice.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2025: “Dairy of War” - Rotterdam Photography Festival
2021: “in-diebus-illis”, Perm , Russia.
2019:“in-diebus-illis” – Rotterdam Photography festival
2017: “A-local”, Froots Gallery, Beijing , China.
2016: “A-local”, Froots Gallery, Shanghai , China.
2016: “A - Local” , Tsekh Gallery,Kiev, Ukraine.
2016: “Once upon a time there was a light…” , Photo-Bibleoteka, Art-Play, Moscow, Russia.
2015:”Hard To Remember” Art-Villa Gallery. Toscana , Italy.
2015:” Reliance” Minshar Gallery. Tel-aviv , Israel.2014:”Baked Land” Fab-Lab Gallery. Tel-aviv , Israel.
2014: “Searching Mode: Recreation “ Tel-Aviv Opera. Tel-aviv , Israel.
2014: “Once upon a time there was a light, light so bright that no one could see” - Agripas 12
Gallery - Jerusalem, Israel.
2013: ”Portraits in the Landscape” - MMOMA(Moscow Museum of Modern Art) as a part of a
Photo Biennale, Moscow, Russia.
2012: “Searching Mode : Landscape #001” Tavi Gallery - Tel-aviv, Israel.
2010: ”Thought observing Palestina” Israeli Cultural Center, Moscow.
Selected group exhibitions:
2024: “south album” , Petah Tikva Museum, Israel
2024: “October 7”, Anu Museum , Tel-aviv, Israel
2018: Le Forme dell’attesa , Areacretiva42, Turin, Italy.
2018: Transform Europe, Vienna, Austria.
2018: Stand P26 CBM, London Art Fair.
2017: CMB Art show, Turin, Italy.
2017: Without Boarders, Circle 1 gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017: Kolga award, Tbilisi , Georgia
2017: Transform Europe, Vienna, Austria.
2016: “A-local”, Shanghai Photo Fair, Shanghai , China.
2016: “Tabellae innocentium” International Photo Festival, Jaffa, Israel.
2016: “PhotoBook Melbourne”, Melbourne, Australia.
2015: “Untitled” Gallery, Barcelona, Catalan.
2015: Photo Art Fair, Port Gallery, Jaffa
2015: Tel-aviv Photo Fair 2015 - Exhibited “The Archive Magazine”
2014: Laura Haber art gallery, Buenos Aires Argentina.2014: Liquid borders group show “MECA” , Spain.
2013: 10 year anniversary to Local Testimony , Tel-aviv, Israel
2013: Iaab Residency exhibition , Basel , Switzerland
2013: Liquid borders group show , Gdynia, Poland.
2013: Liquid borders group show , Romania.
2013: Agripas 12 group summer show
2013: 7° International Arte Laguna Prize - Under25 , Venice, Italy.
2013: Silver Camera Moscow, Russia.
2012: Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford, England .
2012: Foto8 Gallery - SummerShow, London.
2012: III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Moscow.
2011: Graduation Exhibition at Minshar Gallery, Tel-aviv.
2011: Russian Center for Peace, Moscow.
Education:
2011:Minshar for art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Citizenship:
Born in Moscow 1988
Currently living in Israel, with Israeli and Russian citizenship.
Language skills:
Hebrew, English, Russian.
