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Artist statement

I am a photographer and artist based in Tel Aviv. My work moves along two axes: artistic photography and social-documentary practice. Across both, I explore the intersection of personal and collective memory, the body, and the passage of time, constructing visual spaces where life and death, presence and absence, coexist.

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In series such as Indelible, I engage with the enduring imprint of the Holocaust through my father’s tattooed number. In Four Generations, I examine continuity and transmission by placing survivors alongside their descendants. Other bodies of work-Shabbat and Holidays, Excessive Sweetness, and Hair Creatures-navigate between ritual, excess, concealment, and transformation.

My documentary projects extend this inquiry into social contexts: the Bedouin community in transition, migration and change; Till the Last Groove, addressing agriculture as a marker of borders, and explorations of ultra-Orthodox society, among others.

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My practice is rooted in the aging body and the third age, and shaped by my birth in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp and by my parents’ Holocaust histories of survival - an enduring presence that influences my visual language.

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Through my work, I hold together contradictions - mourning and celebration, vulnerability and strength, the personal and the historical-insisting on visibility where erasure once prevailed.

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Education

2020- today

Art Photography - Masterclass 

Hamerhav - Photography and Art

2014-2016

Tel Aviv University

Phototherapy – Photography as a therapeutic instrument – certificate studies,

2009-2013

Gavra Studio

Photography studies, including professional studio photography

2000-2005

Tel Aviv University

1968-1971

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

A Master of Arts degree (M.A.) - (Cum Laude) from the

Interdisciplinary Arts program

Bachelor's degree (B.A.) - French language and literature and

international relations

"My works address the encounter between life and
death. I always make sure to preserve an aesthetic dimension, observing the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete."

Debbie Morag, artist and photographer
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