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Z I o n O z e r i
Born in Israel to Immigrants from Yemen and currently living in the USA and Israel, Zion Ozeri is one of the world’s leading photographers exploring the Jewish experience. Raised in Israel during a period of mass immigration, he interacted with many diverse cultures. This unique background gives him a cross-culture perspective that suffuses his work.
He graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as Pratt Institute, both in New York City.
His photographs appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Jerusalem Report, Moment, the Middle East Insight, The Forward, LA Jewish Journal, The Economist, Ha’aretz, and many other publications. His work has been exhibited in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, ANU, the Museum of The Jewish People in Tel Aviv, (formerly Beit Hatfutsot), The Spertus Museum in Chicago, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, The 92nd Street Y in New York, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, Berlin Jewish museum, Columbia University in NYC, and many other museums & galleries.
Ozeri published a few books in, including The Jewish World Family Haggadah, (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a coffee table book, The Jews of Yemen, The Last Generation, (Keter, Jerusalem, 2005, and a new edition by Gefen, 2024), and Pictures Tell: A Passover Haggadah, (Gefen Publishing, 2022). Ozeri won a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism in 2004. He is the recipient of the Covenant Foundation award for 2013. He founded The Jewish Lens curriculum & project in 2004, and. In addition, Ozeri is the founder/creative director of the DiverCity Lens, a curriculum and program, implemented since 2012, in NYC public schools.
His lectures at Columbia University, led to a 2023-24 exhibition, “Jewish Identity, Jewish Diversity”, at Columbia University, and CUNY Hostos. It is scheduled to travel this fall to UCLA. Another exhibition, The Jews of Yemen, The Last Generation was exhibited last year at ANU, the museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.
A new curricular lesson plans, Picturing Israel: History, Heritage and Homeland, was introduced to students in North America in the Fall of 2025.
www.ZionOzeri.com www.PicturingIsrael.org www.JewishLens.org www.DiverCityLens.org
Zion Ozeri Portrait; by Michael Priest