About

Daniel Tchetchik is a staff photographer and the chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz Newspaper.
He has displayed his personal works in leading museums and galleries in Israel as well as on international stages in NYC, Kassel, San Francisco, Sweden, Berlin, Hamburg, Bulgaria and India.

The works are part of the collections of The Museum of Tel Aviv, The Museum of Ramat Gan, The Peter Blum Gallery, The Umm El Fahem Gallery, Museum for Sepulkralkultur, The Marc Rich Foundation, The French Institute as well as several private collections. 
Tchetchik divides his time between personal projects and documentary assignments, many times each approach provides inspiration for the other. Editorial work has appeared on platforms of the The Financial Times, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Haaretz Newspaper and more.

His series “Divided Moment” is on permanent display at Hotel Montefiore in Tel-Aviv.

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. His works are displayed both as a photographic series as well as published in artist books, the different platforms present the fascinating possibility of changing narratives with the same photographs.
Tchetchik works with film that often has been exposed to radiation and kept in harmful conditions in order to uncover features of both the photographic matter itself and the subjects in the works.

Contact

Upcoming
May 2024 - Contemporary Art Center Ramla CACR “Edge”
September 2024 - Beit Bialik - 100 years

Current
January- June 2024 - MUZA Days Before Darkness Solo Exhibition

Selected Exhibitions + Commissions

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.