Israeli born photographer Lili Almog (b. 1961, Tel Aviv) is renowned for her contemporary photography and mixed media installations of intimate spiritual portraits of women's cultural identities around the world.Lili moved to NYC in the 1980s and began her career as an international fashion and portraiture photojournalist. Her artistic focus has often aligned with the traditions of environmental portraiture while creating unexpected representations of a private feminine body and psyche, capturing both the spiritual and cultural state of women as influenced by contemporary Western culture (Bed Sequence, 2002, Perfect Intimacy, 2006 and The Other Half of the Sky, 2009). More recently, her work has shifted to documenting traces of human activity and includes sculptures and video (Between Presence and Absence, 2015). The Space Within (2017- ongoing), taking experimental direction of work on locations and in studio settings emphasis on veiled women and explores the way women in all major religions reshape their appearance as a response to global upheavals of our era.Lili has published several monographs and exhibited widely, with solo shows at several international venues. Her photographs are included in permanent collections at The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and numerous private collections.
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