Oren Ziv

Oren Ziv, born 1985. Co-founder of Activestills Collective. Since 2005 he has been documenting social and political issues in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. Since 2011 he is working as a staff photographer of 972 online magazine, and freelancing for Haaretz Newspaper, AFP and Getty Images. His work has been published on NY Times Lens Blog, Al Jazeera, Vice, Tablet Magazine, Electronic Intifada and many more. He is has been awarded the Curators’ Choice Prize in the Israeli Local Testimony of the Eretz Israel Museum in the years 2011-2014. He has been a jury member at the 5th International Activist Award issued by the PhotoPhilonthropy (USA) in 2014.  Currently he is studying an MA in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London.