Igor Zeiger
uzbekistani-Israeli artist and curator
Igor Zeiger , (Hebrew: איגור זייגר; born April 16, 1977) is an Uzbekistan-born Israeli Italian artist and curator.
Biography
Igor Zeiger was born in 1977 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to Mark Zeiger, an engineer and Larisa Yavetz, schoolteacher. He graduated from Tashkent University of Information Technologies with master's degree in communications. Zeiger immigrated to Israel in 2000, living first in kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, then Rehovot and moving to Tel Aviv in 2011. Igor Zeiger spends his time alternately and works in Italy and Jaffa.
Career
Zeiger started with documentary photography as an autodidact. He studied in Studio Gavra School of Photography in class of Sagit Zluf Namir, graduating in 2012. His mentors included David Adika, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz and Nissan N. Perez. In April 2015, Zeiger's photograph was published on the cover of "Israeli Lens" magazine, predecessor of international "Lens Magazine". In 2016, Igor's photograph was chosen as a poster photo for Paco Anselmi documentary film "Karam: A Matter Of Karma", screened at TLVFest.
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