Oded Balilty


Oded Balilty is an Israeli documentary photographer. He is an Associated Press photographer and won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2007.
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Biography

Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he began his career as a photographer for the Israeli army magazine Bamahane. In 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, he joined The Associated Press. In 2007, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a lone Jewish settler confronting Israeli security officers during the evacuation of a West Bank settlement outpost. He is the only Israeli photographer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize. From 2007–2008, he was based in Beijing for AP. Balilty lives in Tel Aviv and photographs current events and documentary features for AP in Israel, Palestine, and around the world.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2015 “Sabra Traces” Eretz Israel Museum" Tel Aviv
  • 2014 “In Observation” Projex Connect, San Francisco
  • 2013 “Restraint,” N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2013 “Israel, Soviet Style,” Russian Photo Forum, Moscow, Russia
  • 2011 "Marginal Notes" N&N Amana Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2009 POV Photo festival in Tel Aviv
  • 2009 "Hide and Seek" at the Artist House in Jerusalem
  • 2008 "China", photo festival of Gijon, Spain
  • 2007 “Chernobyl Today”, Coalmine photo gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2007 Lucca Digital Photo Festival, Italy
  • 2007 Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • 2005 Coalmine photo gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2006 “Chernobyl Today”, festival du Scoop, Angers, France
  • 2000 "Reflected Reality", Z.O.A House, Tel-Aviv

Selected group exhibitions

Awards