Igor Zeiger


Igor Zeiger is an Uzbekistan-born Israeli artist and curator.

Biography

Igor Zeiger was born in 1977 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to Mark Zeiger, an engineer and Larisa Yavetz, schoolteacher. He graduated from Tashkent University of Information Technologies with master's degree in communications. Zeiger immigrated to Israel in 2000, living first in kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, then Rehovot and moving to Tel Aviv in 2011.

Career

Zeiger started with documentary photography as autodidact. He studied in Studio Gavra School of Photography in class of Sagit Zluf Namir, graduating in 2012. His mentors included David Adika, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz and Nissan N. Perez. In April 2015, Zeiger's photograph was published on the cover of "Israeli Lens" magazine, predecessor of international "Lens Magazine". In 2016, Igor's photograph was chosen as a poster photo for Paco Anselmi documentary film "Karam: A Matter Of Karma", screened at TLVFest. Zeiger lives and works in Jaffa. Zeiger is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a member of Israeli Association of Visual Artists and Royal Photographic Society. Zeiger founded artistic cooperative Beam Collective together with two fellow artists Maria Rosenblatt and Erica Tal-Shir in 2018.
Zeiger works have been published in the several magazines and newspapers around the world, including Haaretz, Calcalist, Sky Arte Italia, Devour Madrid, Israeli Lens, Lens Magazine and The North American Post.

Exhibitions

Igor Zeiger works are in permanent collection of Haifa Museum of Art and Jerusalem Municipal Library