Miki Kratsman
Israeli photographer

Miki Kratsman is a photographer since 1955 for the daily Haaretz in Israel and the Tel-Aviv weekend magazine, Ha'ir. He also collaborates with different media on an international level. In 1997, he received the Enrique Calvin Israel Museum award for his work in photography. In 2001, he was awarded with a prize from the Minister of Education and Culture of Israel. That same year, he received the British Multi Exposure grant an independent organism which encourages exchange between English, Israeli and Palestinian artists.

His work has been exposed on numerous occasions. In 1993 and 2000, the public was introduced to hi work at the Museum of Arts of Tel Aviv as well as at the Museum of Israel in Jerusalem back in 1999. He also gains exposure in Europe. In 2000, his photographs have been exposed in Italy (Siena) at the Palazzo delle Papesse and in Paris, in 2001, at the Maison Robert Doisneau. The Gallery of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design of Jerusalem receives exclusive rights to expose his photographs in 1996, so did the Nelly Aman Gallery of Tel Aviv in 2001 and 2003. The Museum of Israel also organised a solo exposition featuring Miki Kratsman's work in 2003.

The field of audiovisual also marks his work with the reports he produced in Israel. Furthermore, Miki Kratsman's photographs have also been published in such collections of works as Following the Missile Attack on Israel, A Day in the Life in Israel, 16 Cambio-16 Years of Photojournalism (Spain) and Documenta X-The Book.

In Tel-Aviv, he taught at the College of Photography (1996-1999), at the School for Geographic Photographic (1998-2003) and at the Vital School of Design (2001). From 2002 to 2003, he was a professor in the Arts department of Haïfa University, located in the North of Israel.

Born in Argentina, in 1959, he immigrated to Israel in 1971 and began an academic training in photography. He began his carrier as a photographer in 1984 at the daily Hadashot, where he worked until 1994.