Ziv Koren


Ziv Koren is an Israeli photojournalist, a Canon EMEA ambassador and a representative of "Polaris Images" photo agency. Koren is most noted for documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the IDF operations and the special forces units "Shayetet 13", "Duvdevan", "YAMAM", and “Sayeret Matkal.”

Biography

Ziv Koren began his career as a photographer in the Israeli army. Koren was in a relationship with Israeli fashion model Galit Gutmann. They have two daughters.

Photography career

Koren's main interest are humanitarian issues which are often the subject of his documentary projects such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, poverty, the Tsunami, Guantanamo Prison, the Haiti earthquake, AIDS in South Africa and festivals in India, to name a few.
In addition, he has documented the Israeli Defense Forces for more than two decades including military operations such as the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the Second Lebanese War, military operations "Cast Lead", "Pillar of Cloud", "Protective Edge" and others.
His photographs have appeared in solo and group exhibitions worldwide at the Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, the Memorial Museum in Spain, and the War Museum in Croatia, in the project 'War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath", at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. They have been published in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, Der Spiegel, Paris Match, Le Figaro, Corriere Della Sera Magazine, Wired Magazine and more.
Koren’s image of an exploded Israeli bus, was selected in year 2000 as one of the 200 most important images in the last 45 years by The World Press Photo organization, besides which he is the recipient of numerous awards such as the "Photo District News Award ", "Yann Geffroy Award", "International Color Award" and " POYi - Picture of the Year International ".
Koren was the subject of the documentary film "More than 1000 words" which was screened in film festivals and won festival awards.

Awards