Roi Kuper

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Roi Kuper (Hebrew: רועי קופר; born 1956) is a leading Israeli art photographer and a lecturer at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. His works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Herzliya Museum and the Tate Modern Museum in London, among other museums and galleries. Kuper was born in Kibbutz Mefalsim and began his artistic career in the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1982 he studied photography in the Hadassah College, Jerusalem. In the 1990s, he was the photography curator of a studio in Tel Aviv. In the early 1990s, he created the photographic series Vanishing zones, using non-professional cameras together with printing techniques that created blurry, hazy images. In works from the second half of the 1990s, Kuper began to explore Israeli landscapes while emphasizing the perspective of the artist. In the series Necropolis, created in 1996–2000, his photographs took on a political slant as, working with Gilad Ophir, he documented IDF training zones. In his work, Kuper touches on broad philosophical issues, which he explores through the medium of photography. Also, his works examine the act and status of the medium of photography itself.