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Photographer Edward Serotta takes a self-portrait in a hotel room during his efforts to document Romania in the 1980s. (Courtesy Serotta via JTA)
April 11, 2026, 7:07 am
Romanian secret police trailed a Jewish photographer in the ’80s. Those files are now a film
Edward Serotta only recently discovered he’d been surveilled while traveling the communist country. Acclaimed director Radu Jude has turned the findings into a short documentary
By Toby Axelrod
'New York Havurah Shabbat School, Jay Greenspan, Simchat Torah, 1976' dates to photographer Bill Aron's time as a member of the grassroots Jewish congregation on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (Bill Aron, American Jewish Historical Society via JTA)
February 10, 2026, 1:08 am
Bill Aron, photographer of Jewish countercultures, gets his due in sweeping NYC retrospective
A new American Jewish Historical Society exhibit running through June 4 spans five decades’ worth of images — from the heyday of the havurah movement to the fading glory of the Jewish Lower East Side
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Photographer Nan Goldin talks to the press at the exhibition "Nan Goldin. This Will Not End Well" at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2024. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
January 23, 2026, 12:35 pm
Canadian gallery sees resignations after it refuses to acquire Nan Goldin’s photos
Art Gallery of Ontario’s decision spurred by Jewish photographer’s anti-Israel comments; curator and two committee members step down; gallery pledges ‘reset’
By Grace Gilson
Abe Kugielsky poses in front of his installation Humans of New York’s 'Dear New York' exhibition in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, running from October 6 to October 19, 2025. (Courtesy Abe Kugielsky via JTA)
October 20, 2025, 3:50 am
How Abe Kugielsky’s photos of Hasidic Brooklyn ended up on display in Grand Central Terminal
The Modern Orthodox photographer is part of the ‘Dear New York’ exhibit curated by Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton, on display at Grand Central Station from Oct. 6-19
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: Palestinians gather at a food distribution point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
August 8, 2025, 1:08 am
Gaza photographer denies staging images of hunger or affiliating with Hamas
Israeli investigative group also casts doubt on those citing German tabloid report accusing photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha of creating ‘Hamas propaganda’
By Ben Sales and Nava Freiberg
'Three Generations' 2016, a photo by photographer Elinor Carucci, exhibited in '20-20, A Lens of Her Own,' which opened June 5, 2025, at ANU Museum of the Jewish People (Courtesy)
June 11, 2025, 8:27 am
Past and present female photographers are paired and compared in new exhibit
Historic female photographers are matched with contemporary documentarians in Tel Aviv ANU’s ’20&20 – A Lens of Her Own’; curator: ‘The look in their eyes is the same’
By Jessica Steinberg
A young man checks the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jewish Polish prisoners coming from Auschwitz, in Dachau concentration camp in late April or early May 1945, after the Dachau's camp was liberated by the US army on April 29, 1945. (ERIC SCHWAB / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 6:39 am
Searching for his mother, photojournalist Eric Schwab exposed horrors of Nazi camps
The Jewish former fashion photographer became a war correspondent after Paris was liberated, documenting the depravity of the Holocaust while on his deeply personal quest
By AFP
The two winning UNICEF Photo of the Year picks; on the left, Stav, a survivor of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack, by Avishag Shaar-Yashuv and on the right, Dareen, 11, and her brother, Kinan, five, the only survivors of a family killed by an Israeli airstrike during the war against Hamas in Gaza, by Samar Abu Elouf (Courtesy UNICEF)
December 26, 2024, 1:29 pm
Israeli photojournalist shares UNICEF Photo of the Year prize with Palestinian colleague
Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, a photographer whose work regularly appears in The New York Times, wins prize for image of Israeli child who survived October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack
By Jessica Steinberg
A photograph by Oren Ziv, from 'Southern Album,' an exhibit that opened June 21, 2024 at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. (Courtesy)
June 29, 2024, 7:16 am
‘A wounded landscape’: New photo exhibit captures life in Israel’s south, then and now
Historian and photographer Dana Arieli created ‘The Photographer of Things — Southern Album,’ a new exhibit at Petah Tikva Museum of Art that tells the story of the south
By Jessica Steinberg
IDF Lotar unit soldiers crying on October 10, 2023, at the sight of the Kibbutz Kfar Aza home that still had challah from the family's Shabbat eve meal on the table when it was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7. (Courtesy Ziv Koren/Polaris)
June 9, 2024, 9:37 pm
Photojournalist Ziv Koren shows the world what happened on October 7, in new exhibit
The collection of images, many graphic, of people and places since the Hamas onslaught is now showcased at the Peres Center: ‘It’s become a kind of Yad Vashem’
By Jessica Steinberg
Oldrich Stransky, b. 1921, photographed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. (Dennis Carlyle Darling)
May 6, 2024, 3:48 am
Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project
Dennis Darling’s recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Sofie Berzon MacKie at her new exhibit, 'Silvery Water and Starry Earth' at Jerusalem's Studio of Her Own gallery, opened January 12, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 2, 2024, 7:14 am
Be’eri gallerist finds hope and pain in exhibit about home, as she pines for her own
Sofie Berzon MacKie and her family survived the Hamas massacre on October 7; now evacuees, they’re attempting to rebuild their lives
By Jessica Steinberg
Jewish actor and comedian Andy Samberg, left, portrays World War II photographer David E. Scherman, right in the biographical film "Lee." (Images courtesy of Rich Polk via Getty Images for IMDb and Wikimedia via JTA)
September 13, 2023, 11:05 am
Andy Samberg plays Jewish WWII photographer in upcoming biopic
Actor portrays David E. Scherman in ‘Lee,’ which also stars Kate Winslet
By Jackie Hajdenberg
File: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrive at United Nations headquarters in New York, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
May 18, 2023, 2:01 am
Prince Harry, Meghan involved in ‘near catastrophic’ car chase with paparazzi
Sussexes’ spokesperson says pursuit with photographers in New York lasted over two hours, led to multiple close calls with police, pedestrians, other drivers
By Peter HUTCHISON and Andrew MARSZAL
Detail of a photo of Holocaust suvivor Sally Fishberg, left, with granddaughter Hannah, featured in 'Invited to Life,' by B.A. Van Sise. (Courtesy/ B.A. Van Sise)
April 18, 2023, 4:28 pm
Life after hell: Thriving US Holocaust survivors chronicled in photo-driven book
‘Invited to Life’ by B.A. Van Sise takes a new approach to survivor testimony, showing how people who endured terrible evil rebuilt lives and pursued their dreams in a new country
By Jacqueline Cutler
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