Yael Ben-Zion is a New York-based photographer whose work often considers the relationship of the personal to the political. Yael was born in Minneapolis, MN and raised in Israel. She is a graduate of the International Center of Photography’s General Studies Program. Prior to taking up photography, Yael had a diverse legal career which included pursuing LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees at the Yale Law School. It was at Yale that she took her first formal photography class.
Yael's work has been exhibited in the United States and in Europe and she is the recipient of various grants and awards, including ICP’s Directors’ Scholarship Award, the International Photography Awards and recent grants from NoMAA and the Puffin Foundation. In 2007, her photograph 'Crash' was selected for the cover of American Photography 23. Yael’s first monograph, '5683 miles away' (Kehrer, 2010), was selected as one of photo-eye’s Best Books of 2010 and for the PDN Photo Annual 2011. It was also a nominee for the German Photo Book Award 2011. 'Intermarried' (Kehrer, 2013), her second monograph which was recently released in the US, was selected for American Photography 30 and featured, among others, in the NY Times Sunday Review, PDN Magazine and the Forward
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