Daniel
Tchetchik
Daniel Tchetchik is a staff photographer and the chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz newspaper. His works have been featured in prominent museums and galleries in Israel, as well as at venues around the world. Tchetchik’s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Tel Aviv, the Museum for Sepulchral Culture – Kassel, the Peter Blum Gallery, the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, the Eretz Israel Museum and the Umm El Fahem Gallery, to name a few.
In 2015, his long-term acclaimed body of work, “Sunburn”, was exhibited at the SF Camerawork Annual Juried Exhibition, published as an artist book by Kehrer Verlag, and chosen to be included in Sueddeutsche Zeitung Mazagine’s Art Edition 46.
Tchetchik was nominated for, and published by, the Prix Pictet Award in 2020.
In 2021, Yoav Gottesman, a prominent supporter of the arts, commissioned Tchetchik to create a portfolio of photo-etchings from his series “Edge”.
More recently, Tchetchik’s long term series, “Days Before Darkness”, was displayed in a large-scale solo exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum. The series was featured in the Wall Street Journal, in addition to several other news outlets.
Through photography, Tchetchik investigate his natural surroundings. It is a search for visual descriptions and reflections of a contemporary emotion in the landscape and people.
His works carry a powerful, overwhelming sense of an impending, imminent danger. There is an ongoing 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.
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Daniel Tchetchik is a staff photographer and the chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz newspaper. His works have been featured in prominent museums and galleries in Israel, as well as at venues around the world. Tchetchik’s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Tel Aviv, the Museum for Sepulchral Culture – Kassel, the Peter Blum Gallery, the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, the Eretz Israel Museum and the Umm El Fahem Gallery, to name a few.
In 2015, his long-term acclaimed body of work, “Sunburn”, was exhibited at the SF Camerawork Annual Juried Exhibition, published as an artist book by Kehrer Verlag, and chosen to be included in Sueddeutsche Zeitung Mazagine’s Art Edition 46.
Tchetchik was nominated for, and published by, the Prix Pictet Award in 2020.
In 2021, Yoav Gottesman, a prominent supporter of the arts, commissioned Tchetchik to create a portfolio of photo-etchings from his series “Edge”.
More recently, Tchetchik’s long term series, “Days Before Darkness”, was displayed in a large-scale solo exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum. The series was featured in the Wall Street Journal, in addition to several other news outlets.