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The International Center of Photography is pleased to present the 2022 ICP Photobook Fest. Presented in partnership with The Photography Show: Presented by AIPAD, the event will include leading photobook publishers and photographers showcasing their latest image-based books as well as in-person book signings and a zine-making workshop.
May 21-22, 2022 at ICP’s new building at Essex Crossing located on the Lower East Side (79 Essex, New York, NY 10002)
In celebration of Women’s History Month, The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance presents the exhibition: Women in the Heights – Up Close and Personal, a group exhibition curated by Andrea Arroyo.
NoMAA Gallery: 4140 Broadway, New York, NY 10033
In–Person Opening: March 22, 5:30-7:30pm
In–Person Artist Talk: April 5, 5:30-7:30pm
3 images from 5683 miles away are included in In Praise of the Shadows, curated by Hanita Elizur.
The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne, Israel
Nov. 6 – Dec. 23, 2021
Opening: Saturday, Nov. 6, 8:00 pm
Happy to have my work included in this collection of photographs by women and non-binary photographers exploring the many layers of fatherhood, curated by The Luupe.
I was recently interviewed by Margo Moore, Children’s Librarian at the George Bruce Library, for the New York Public Library Blog.
My work is included in:
Did That Just Happen? and online exhibition curated by Melissa Kreider of Don’t Smile
and
2020 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, in two online galleries juried by Alison Nordström & Lou Jones
mages from 5683 miles away are included in Issue #71 of Lens Magazine – The Middle East, August 2000.
Participating photographers: (Articles and Interviews) AHMAD KHATIRI | OMRI SHOMER | MAHYA RASTEGAR | YAEL BEN-ZION | PYGMALION KARATZAS | CRISTIAN GEELEN | MILO SLADAKOVIC | PARITA DAEMI | SAMEER AL-DOUMY | ALI SHOKRI
On the Cover: Parita Daemi © All Rights Reserved
For a PDF version of my work see here.
My work is included in:
Corona: It’s All About the Light, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
160 Various Photographers
May 8 – July 17, 2020
and
Healing and Community: Physical to Virtual, curated by Patricia Miranda for NoMAA
Virtual Artist Talk: Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 pm
Curator’s Walk: Wednesday, May 20, 7:30 pm
Exhibition catalog
NoMAA (Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance) in partnership with Broadway Housing Communities (BHC) and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling presents Women in the Heights – Creating for the Future, a group exhibition curated by Andrea Arroyo.
Rio II Gallery
583 Riverside Dr, Fl 7th
New York, New York 10031
March 5 – 31, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6:30-8:30 pm
Artist Talk & Workshop: Tuesday, March 31, 6:30 pm
Intermarried was recently featured in the season finale of season finale of Shades of U.S., a CUNY TV monthly series, which explores journeys of identity in an ever-complex population.
Shades of U.S. is a project by Darrell Brown. He is a producer, cameraperson, and editor currently working on studio and field productions for various CUNY TV series, many of which have been nominated for New York Emmys.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, NoMAA (Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance) in partnership with Broadway Housing Communities (BHC) and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling presents Women in the Heights – Creating for Change, a group exhibition curated by Andrea Arroyo.
Rio II Gallery
583 Riverside Dr, Fl 7th
New York, New York 10031
March 8 – 29, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, March 8, 6:30-8:30 pm
Artist Talk and Workshop: Friday, March 29, 6:30 pm
Word Up Community Bookshop
2113 Amsterdam Avenue (@165th St.), NYC
May 8 – June 14, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, May 12, 3-5pm.
Panel discussion: Saturday, June 2, 3-5pm.
The panel discussion will feature my collaborators, artists Marcus Moore, Maaji Newbold, Michael Deegan, and myself, and moderated by Veronica Liu of Word Up.
A group exhibition, curated by Barbara Zucker.
The 5th edition of CURRENTS presents an exhibition in which artists respond to the theme of ABORTION. In this turbulent moment in history, abortion remains a signifier of people’s ownership over their bodies, being as urgent a subject as any of the issues that now consume us.
January 5 – February 4, 2018
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 7, 5:30-7:30PM
A group exhibition, curated by Gabriel de Guzman.
UPROOT presents the work of artists who are urgently engaging with the current state of affairs since the 2016 presidential election.
November 18 – December 31, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 18, 6-8pm
Spoken Word Performance and Discussion by Marcus Moore, the Homeless Poet & Yael Ben-Zion: Saturday, December 9, 5-7 pm
A group exhibition that explores the transformative role of art
Curated by Esperanza Cortés
Rio II Gallery
583 Riverside Dr, Fl 7th, New York, New York 10031
Antonia Guerrero, Juanita Lanzo, Leslie Jimenez, Sharese Ann Frederick, Luis Pagan, Bridget Kiley, Takashi Harada, Jeff Elliott, Andrea Perez, Moses Ros, Yael Ben-Zion, Dato Mio, Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Eva Nikolova
October 6 – 27, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 6-8 pm
Artist Talk and Workshop: Friday, October 27,6-8 pm
Intermarried is featured in the September 2017 issue of LIFE FORCE magazine, a monthly, online, photo-led magazine which celebrates the art-form of the photoessay.
The Artists Unite Poster Project, developed in cooperation with the MTA, will present three events showcasing uptown artists whose work has appeared in local subway elevators since 2009. My poster is one of the 40 poster exhibited. Read more about the project here.
Hudson View Gardens Lounge, 128 Pinehurst Ave, New York, NY
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 3, 5-9:30pm
Artists’ Talk, Video, Slide Show: Sunday, June 4, 12-5pm
Closing Party: Friday, June 9, 6-9 PM
5683 miles away, curated by Prof. Simcha Shirman
Morel Derfler Gallery, The NB Haifa School of Design, 21 HaGanim Street, Haifa, Israel
May 8- June 10, 2017
Artist talk: Monday, May 8, 10am-12pm
My work is included in Call and Response: Art as Resistance, an exhibition presented by Strange Fire Collective and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
The exhibition features artists from 17 countries making work in response to the current social and political climate in the United States.
The Opening Reception Slide Show was presented on March 31, 2017 during the Month of Photography Denver.
My work is included in The Female Gaze: Portraits, an online exhibition curated by Ashley Kauschinger for Don’t Smile (2016-2021), an online and in-print publication that was dedicated to showcasing photography by women artists.
The Female Gaze: Portraits overturns and examines a trope that perforates the historical (and contemporary) discourse of art: the male gaze. There is a long history of women being looked at rather than being in the more powerful position of looker. This exhibition contributes broad reaching interpretations to a new history of the female gaze.
I participate in Unnatural Election: Artists Respond to the 2016 US Presidential Election, curated by Andrea Arroyo with over 200 international artists participating.
Kimmel Galleries, New York University, 60 Washington Square South, 8th Fl., New York, NY, 10012
January 19 – May 30, 2017
Opening reception: Thursday, January 19, 6- 8pm
My work is included in Tribute to the Disappeared, an art project in honor of the 26,000 men and women disappeared in Mexico, and other victims of violence and injustice around the world.
Selections from the project are featured at the Tribute to the Disappeared Exhibition, curated by Andrea Arroyo, and presented in partnership with CUNY-Center for Worker Education, CCNY’s Human Rights Forum, and Frances S. Patai Program in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies.
The Halls at Bowling Green Gallery, CUNY’s Graduate Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, New York, NY
September 26-December 31, 2016 (extended)
Opening reception: Monday, September 26, 6- 8pm
Gaa Gallery – Provincetown is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition, Cats + Creatures featuring the work of Richard Baker, Yael Ben-Zion, Martin Manning and Martin Munkacsi.
Gaa Gallery, 494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
August 26 – September 14, 2016
Opening reception: Friday, August 26, 6 – 9pm
I am happy to be one of the Honorable Mentioned artists at BAXTER ST at CCNY’s 2016 Annual Juried Photography Competition, juried by artist Mickalene Thomas.
The image Portrait with father’s painting from the Project Building Bridges is included in NoMAA’s Uptown Arts Review, an exhibition showcasing the work of 29 local artists working in a variety of media, curated by Andrea Arroyo.
Rio II Gallery, 583 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10031
June 6 – June 30, 2016
Opening reception: Monday, June 6, 6-9pm
Artists talk: Monday, June 20, 6-8pm
I am happy to have 3 works from 5683 miles away at this pop-up show, organized by the students of MassArt’s FA2D Professional Practices.
There is a Garden, and It Exists
Curated by: Pauli Mia and Victoria Marie Barquin
Distille Gallery, 516 E 2nd St, Boston, MA 02127
April 18 – April 23, 2016
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 20, 6-9pm
Intermarried was recently reviewed by Ann Jastrab in All-About-Photo.com
“The result is a powerful book full of lives lived, with challenges faced, and stories shared. There are surprises and heart ache and lessons to be learned. But also, there are the portraits. Sensitive. Subtle. Rich in color and gesture. Moments captured. Time stopped.”
Works, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
September 5 – October 11, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, September 5, 6-8pm
Images from Intermarried are included in:
Not MY Family Values, an Art Photo Index online exhibition curated by Rebecca Senf
and
Power, Protest, and Resistance: The Art of Revolution, curated by Danny Simmons and Oshun Layne, at Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Please join me for the opening reception of the exhibition Building Bridges – Y interfaith Project on Sunday, June 7, 1-4pm at the Y of Washington Heights and Inwood, located at 54 Nagle Avenue in New York.
The exhibition includes photographs and interviews with local families who live in an interfaith household or crossed interfaith bridges, and was made possible thanks to a grant from the UJA Federation of NY.
To learn more about the project, see here.
Building Bridges, a project I’ve been working on with the Y of Washington Heights and Inwood for the past few months, is featured in the Manhattan Times.
See here for the print edition.
Exhibition of images from this project will open at the Y in June 2015.
The image airport #1 from the project In Transit is still on view in the northern elevator at the A Train 190th St. subway station, as part of the Poster Project presented by Artists Unite in cooperation with New York City Transit.
It was installed in September 2013 and will be up until the end of April 2015.
Intermarried was listed as one of Denver Post‘s favorite books of 2014 in the photography category.
“Ben-Zion’s photos skip the obvious, documenting the evidence that truly defines the mix: Books, photos, kids, art, knick-knacks. Each shot enriched by a quote from its subjects. A great take on 21st century American life.“
It was also reviewed in Fraction Magazine.
“Overall, the book succeeds in bringing to life questions about the tensions between tradition, expectation and lived realities, and is thought-provoking in the way in which Ben-Zion visualizes social categories in order to question the imperatives and social divisions on which they have been built historically.“
The limited edition of Intermarried is finally ready to ship. It includes a signed book with a signed and numbered c-print of the image The Little Prince.
Edition of 50 | sheet size: 8.5×8.5 inch | $125 USD
You can purchase a copy of the limited edition book + print here or by sending me an email.
Also, some limited edition copies of 5683 miles away, my first monograph, are still available for purchase. For details, see here.
Conversation with George Slade, Horizon Books, Traverse City, Ml, Saturday, October 25, at 4pm.
Lecture at the Second Annual Jewish Book Festival of the JCCs of Greater Toronto, Prosserman JCC, Vaughan, ON, Sunday, November 9, at 2am.
Talk at The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, New York, NY, Sunday, November 23, at 3:30pm.
All events are open to the public.
Intermarried was awarded Honorable Mentions in the Book – Fine Art Category and in the Book – People Category in the 2014 International Photography Awards (IPA) Competition.
See here and here for the press releases.
It also received an Honorable Mention in the Book – Fine Art Category in the 2014 Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) Competition.
Intermarried was recently featured in the Canadian Touch BASE, the Jewish Book Council‘s blog, Yale Alumni Magazine and the Spanish 20minutos.
5683 miles away, my first monograph, was featured in the Shpilman Institute for Photography‘s blog. See here for Hebrew.
Images from Intermarried are currently on view at the Cell Theatre in NYC in conjunction with Project Y’s production of Renee Calarco’s play The Religion Thing.
The show runs until August 1, 2014 and on Wednesday, July 9, I will have a talkback with the audience following the show. For info, see here.
For a great review of the play, including a nice mentioning of Intermarried, see The Jewish Week.
Presentation at the Westchester Photografic Society, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY, Friday, June 13, at 8pm.
Conversation with Rabbi Linda Holtzman, Big Blue Marble Book Store, Philadelphia, PA, Thursday, June 19, at 7pm.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Intermarried was recently featured in ArtFile Magazine, The Dail Mail, ICP Library Blog and The Literate Lens.
Work from Intermarried was selected for American Photography 30.
Intermarried will be available at Kehrer‘s booth at Paris Photo LA which takes place at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles April 25-27, 2014.
In addition, on Friday, May 16, 6pm, I will have a book signing for Intermarried at the ICP Museum Store in NY.
For Q&A about Intermarried on the ICP Library Blog, see here.
Images from Intermarried will be exhibited at Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights from March 9 through April 9, 2014. An opening reception will take place on Sunday, March 9, 3-5pm and a discussion with author Lise Funderburg and me, moderated by the curator of the show, Gabriel de Guzman, will take place on Sunday, March 30, 5:30pm.
For details, see press release.
Intermarried was featured on CUNY-TV independent Sources (starting min 21 :45).
The book and exhibition were reviewed by F-Stop Magazine and The Bronx Art Exchange.
Intermarried has recently been featured in the NY Times Sunday Review, PDN Magazine, Manhattan Times, DNAinfo, DART: Design Arts Daily , The Times of Israel, The Forward and Haaretz.
The exhibition and book were also mentioned by am New York, The Uptown Collective and American Photography’s Pro Photo Daily, among others.
Intermarried is now on view at La Galeria at Boricua College in Washington Heights.
The artist reception will take place on Friday, January 17, 6-8pm and an artist talk moderated by the curator of the show, Gabriel de Guzman, will take place on Monday, February 3, 6-8pm.
For details, see press release.
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Happy new year!
January 2014
