About

Daniel Tchetchik is an artist, a staff photographer and the chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz Newspaper. He divides his time between artistic projects and documentary assignments; often, each approach inspires the other. 

He has exhibited in leading museums and galleries in Israel and on international platforms in NYC, Kassel, San Francisco, Sweden, Berlin, Hamburg, Bulgaria, and India. His works are part of the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum, the Ramat Gan  Museum, The Peter Blum Gallery,  Hotel Montefiore, The Umm El Fahem Gallery, the Museum for Sepulkralkultur, The Marc Rich Foundation, The French Institute, as well as several private collections. His editorial work has been published on prominent platforms such as The Financial Times, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Haaretz Newspaper and more.

Artist Statement

Through his practice, photography, Tchetchik investigates his natural surroundings. It is a search for visual descriptions and reflections of a contemporary emotion in the landscape and people. Tchetchik’s works carry a powerful, overwhelming sense of impending, imminent danger. Three is an on-going interplay between light and dark, destruction and rebirth, harsh and tender. The images themselves are immersive, engaging and singularly powerful. From the breathtaking, somewhat mysterious landscapes, to the sparkling of light on the swirling clouds, an eerie scene of a fairground ride or the magically glowing tree of light - all seeking a deeper understanding of the world, all somewhat removed from specific time or place. Revealing a collective unconscious is the force that leads his vision.

Upcoming
January 2025 - Beit Bialik - 100 years
March 2025 - Backroads Artist Book - Be’eri Publishing
May 2025 - Photo London stand D06 Form gallery with Virginia Damtsa

Selected Exhibitions + Commissions
September - Group Show HighLine9 ArtUp, NYC
January 2024 - Solo Show at The Eretz Israel Museum Days Before Darkness Curator: Sofie Berzon Mackie
June 2023 - Group show at Liebling House - “The moment before it all falls apart”
January 2023 Exhibition at The Gottesman Etching Center - Kibbutz Cabri
October 2022 Liebling House Residency Tel Aviv
May 2022 Inga Gallery - Subject to Change, Tel Aviv
Doza Gallery. - Dark Watres, Sopia, Bulgaria
April 2022, Inga Gallery, “Subject to Change”, Tel Aviv.
January 2022, “Beyond Darkness” - Display during Ivri Lider’s concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra - Tel Aviv Main Culture Center.
September 2021, “Edge” Photo Etching Portfolio commissioned by Yoav Gottesman, Words by Roger Ballen.
June 2021, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel, “Dark Waters”.
February 2020, Times Square Billboards ZaZa arts, “Finding Air”.
November 2019, Solo Exhibition  and book launch, Almacen Cultural Center, Jaffa, “Dark Waters”.
September 2019, Uppsala Photography Festival, “Mother”.
September 2019, “Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian”, commissioned by IsraAid.
February 2019, Norwegian Embassy&“Haaretz” Newspaper commission: “Norway, White Days”.
September-December 2018,  ICRC (Red Cross) commission (Spain, Italy, Greece) “Dark Waters”.
February 2018, Um El Fahem Gallery, “Dust Black”, Solo Exhibition .
January 2017, “Transform!” Vienna conference, lecture and display.
September 2016, Kehrer Berlin “Sunburn”, Solo Exhibition .
April 2016, International Photography Festival, “Sunburn”, Main Warehouse.
November 2015, ArtSpace Tel Aviv, Traces Exhibition - Goethe Institute Collaboration.
September 2015, “Just Another Photo Festival”, India.
July 2014, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv ”Waiting List” Group Exhibition.
April 2014, International Photography Festival, Israel.
February 2014, Commissioned work for The Taiwanese Embassy in Taipei.
January 2014: Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, “Divided Moment”.
July 2013, Rothshield 69 Art Space, “Divided Moment –Lost Roads”, Tel Aviv, Co-Exhibition with Oren Izre’el, sponsors: Delta Airlines - American Embassy.
March 2012, Innovation Center, London, “Fading Grounds”.
October 2011, The French Institute, Haifa “Deleted Scenes”.
June 2011, The French Institute, Tel Aviv, “Deleted Scenes”.
July 2011, Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa, “Present Light”.
March 2011, Photo Tel Aviv, Photography Art Fair.
February 2009, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, “Tel Aviv Time”, Group Exhibition.
September 2008, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, “Still Winter”, Solo Exhibition.
March 2008, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv.
May 2006, Museum of Ashdod, Israel, “Earth ways”, Group Exhibition.
February 2006, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, “View (Silver Rust)”, Group Exhibition.
November 2005, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, “On the Banks of the Yarkon”, Group Exhibition. 

November 2005, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, “Picture Israel”, Group Exhibition.
September 2005, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, “Above & Below Home” Solo Exhibition.
September 2005, Ramat Gan Art Museum, “Fading Grounds”, Solo Exhibition.
February 2003, AIPAD Art Fair, New York.
September 2002, Neil Folberg Vision Gallery, Jerusalem, “Velvet Tide”, Co-Exhibition.

Selected Reviews and Publications

July 2020, “Maybe it’s a Sign”, Financial Times Weekend Edition.
September 2019, “Dark Waters” publication, Kehrer Verlag.
August 2019, “Dark Waters”- Sueddeutsche Zeitung feature.
March 2016 “Sunburn”, Burn Magazine feature.
November 2015, “Sunburn”, Sueddeutsche Zeitung feature Art Edition 46
September 2015, “Sunburn”, VICE Magazine feature.
August 2015, “Polish Sunburn”,  New Yorker Instagram takeover.
May 2015, “Sunburn”, Kehrer Verlag press.
May 2015, Lecture at the Israeli Council, NYC.
May 2011, Weekend edition Haaretz cover story – “Divided Moment”.
July 2010, “Present Light” Portrait book, Timeframe Publications.
September 2008, “Still Winter” Catalog.
October 2008, Asian Art Times - Gil Goldfine, “Still Winter” Review.
October 2005, Jerusalem Post, Art Review by Gil Goldfine, “Out of The Heart of Darkness”.

Prizes

2020 Local Testimony Third Prize, Long term projects.
2018 Nominated for the Prix Pictet award.
2016 Nominated for the Prix Pictet award.
2015 Selected for juried exhibition at the Camera Works Gallery, San Francisco.
2015 Local Testimony: First Prize, Series of the year.
2013 Local Testimony: First Prize Daily Life, Singles.
2012 Local Testimony. Curator’s choice. Refugees in south Tel Aviv.
2011 Local Testimony. Second Prize – Urbanism Series.
2010 Local Testimony. Second Prize – Portraits.
2007 Local Testimony. Third Prize – Sports series.

Curatorial Projects 

February 2019, curation of exhibition in Sweden for the Uppsala photography festival.
November 2019, Talk with Martin Parr for the International Photography Festival.
January 2018, Judge at the 17th China International Photographic Art Exhibition, co-organized by China Photographers Association (CPA).
January 2018, Ofir Barak Solo Exhibition , “Through Time”, Jerusalem Artist House.
July 2016, “Haaretz” Photography Blog competition director.
February 2016, Part of the Meiter prize jury (With Noam Gal, Rivka Saker, Vardi Kahana, Yair Barak)
September 2015, Rosh Hashana Catalog Editor for “Haaretz” (sent out to 100,000 subscribers).
July 2014, Curator of Haaretz Photography Blog Exhibition with Moran Shoub, Traffic.