Jeffrey A. Austin

Rafael Ben Ari

James Edward Bates

Gary Braasch

Andrew Buurman

Renée C. Byer

Manny Crisostomo

Chris Curry

Keith Dannemiller

John Davenport

Colin Finlay

Nicole Fruge

Jim Gehrz

Arthur Grace

Karl Grobl

David Gross

Cheryl Hatch

Eros Hoagland

Kate Holt

Eustacio Humphrey

Mark Allen Johnson

Lou Jones

Robert King

Robert Knoth

Lisa Krantz

Jack Kurtz

Antonio Mari

Silvia Morara

Rick Nahmias

Robin Nelson

Nadav Neuhaus

Eric Pasquier

Nikos Pilos

Peter Power

Mark Richards

Steve Sandford

Richard Sennott

Tolga Sezgin

Yusnirsyah Sirin

Richard Sobol

Les Stone

Jonathan Taylor

Hazel Thompson

Francesca Yorke

Rafael Ben Ari


Rafael's professional career started at the time Saddam Hussein and his armed forces invaded to Kuwait in 1990. Rafael volunteered to the Israeli Air Force Intelligence and served as an Aerial Photo Analyst and Military Photographer for three years. When he was 17 the Israeli born photographer Rafael Ben Ari experienced a severe brain infection and the doctors told him that he has one month left to live. In an instant decision he took his father's old camera (Konica) and started to document the first day of the rest of his life. Rafael's life was saved eventually and since then he is using every spare moment to live the life he had been given back and document them through his eyes. Rafael's photography has appeared in a large number of publications, magazines and web sites in Israel and around the world. His passion for photography, led him to build an independent photography Service in Israel called Chameleons Eye, which covers assignments for Israeli and overseas newspapers and magazines. Rafael showcased his photography at exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand and he was honored by the Waitangi National Trust of NZ when three of his images were used on NZ stamps in a collectors edition. Rafael Ben Ari is represented worldwide by ZUMA Press.



         

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