DEBBIE MORAG
PHOTOGRAPHY
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.
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.
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.
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.

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