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'''Oded Balilty''' (Hebrew: עודד בלילטי, born 1979, [[Jerusalem]]) is an Israeli [[documentary]] [[photographer]]. He is an [[Associated Press]] photographer and won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography]] in 2007.
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'''Oded Balilty''' (Hebrew: עודד בלילטי, born March 30, 1979, [[Jerusalem]])<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Dw0Gx8XsWdUC&dq=Oded+Balilty+March+30%2C+1979&pg=PA218 Profile of Oded Balilty]</ref> is an Israeli [[documentary photographer]]. He is an [[Associated Press]] (AP) photographer and won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography]] in 2007.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Balilty was born and raised in Jerusalem. He served as a photographer for the [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] magazine ''BAMAHANE'' and after his army service worked as a photographer for Zoom 77 News Agency. From 2002 he was an AP ([[Associated Press]]) photographer. In 2005, Balilty was chosen to attend the JOOP World Press Master Class. In 2007, Balilty had won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] award in Breaking News Photography. During 2007-2008 he was based in Beijing, [[China]], for Associated Press. In 2010, Balilty established together with other photographers, a Center for Documentary Photography, Doco Club, as a platform for documentary photography and a place to study documentary photography. Today he lives in [[Tel-Aviv]] and engages with newsworthy and documentary photography in Israel and abroad for The Associated Press.
Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he began his career as a photographer for the Israeli army magazine ''[[Bamahane]]''. In 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, he joined The Associated Press. In 2007, he won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his photograph of a lone Jewish settler confronting Israeli security officers during the evacuation of a West Bank settlement outpost. He is the only Israeli photographer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize. From 2007–2008, he was based in Beijing for AP. Balilty lives in [[Tel Aviv]] and photographs current events and documentary features for AP in Israel, Palestine, and around the world.


==Solo Exhibitions==
==Solo exhibitions==
* 2015 “Sabra Traces” Eretz Israel Museum" Tel Aviv
* 2014 “In Observation” Projex Connect, San Francisco
* 2013 “Restraint,” N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 2013 “Israel, Soviet Style,” Russian Photo Forum, Moscow, Russia
* 2011 "Marginal Notes" N&N Amana Gallery, Tel Aviv
* 2011 "Marginal Notes" N&N Amana Gallery, Tel Aviv
* 2009 POV Photo festival in Tel Aviv
* 2009 POV Photo festival in Tel Aviv
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==Selected group exhibitions==
==Selected group exhibitions==
* 2014 “The Double Exposure Project” Shpilman Institute For Photography, Tel Aviv
* 2012 International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
* 2011 Ashdod Museum – A road to nowhere
* 2011 Ashdod Museum – A road to nowhere
* 2008 Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Jerusalem, portraits of Holocaust survivors
* 2008 Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Jerusalem, portraits of Holocaust survivors
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==Awards==
==Awards==
* 2014 National Headliner Award (1st place portrait category)
* 2009 PX3 3rd place in photojournalism general news category with "China Earthquake"
* 2014 NPPA Awards (Honorable Mention portrait category)
* 2009 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, 3rd place in feature picture story " Tel Aviv 100"
* 2014 Picture of the Year International (2nd place, Portrait series)
* 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the coverage of earthquake in south west China (with group of photographers from The Associated Press)
* 2013 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place portrait and 2nd place sport feature)
* 2009 Picture of the Year International (POYI) Award of excellence for his work "Ping pong Nation" from Beijing and Award of excellence for the coverage of earthquake in south west China
* 2013 Overseas Press Club of America (Feature Photography)
* 2009 The PGB Award 1st prize for the coverage of earthquake in south west China
* 2012 China International Press Photo Contest (1st place in daily life category, 2nd place in daily life and sports feature categories)
* 2009 The 75th National Headliner Awards in Photography portfolio
* 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place, pictorial category)2012 Picture of the Year International (1st place, portrait)
* 2009 NPPA Awards, Honorable mention, in Natural Disaster category
* 2008 World Press Photo - 3rd place People in the news
* 2012 Henri Nannen Prize Nomination2009 PX3 (3rd place in photojournalism general news)
* 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist (with group of Associated Press photographers for photos of Sichuan earthquake)
* 2008 Picture of the Year International (POYI) 3rd place in news picture story
* 2009 Picture of the Year International (Award of Excellence for “Ping Pong Nation” and coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
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* 2008 APME for the coverage of earthquake in south west China in May 2008
* 2009 PGB Award (1st place for coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
* 2009 National Headliner Awards (Photography Portfolio)
* 2008 Unicef Photo of the Year 2nd place for the coverage of earthquake in south west China in May 2008
* 2009 NPPA Awards (Honorable Mention, Natural Disaster)
* 2008 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar received awards in five categories for his work in China
* 2008 World Press Photo (3rd place, People in the News)
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* 2008 Picture of the Year International (3rd place, news picture story)
* 2007 Awarded at the National Geographic All Roads Photography Program
* 2008 APME (for coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
* 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Photography braking News
* 2008 UNICEF Photo of the Year (2nd place, coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
* 2007 1st prize in "People in the news" World Press Photo
* 2008 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (awards in five categories for China photography)
* 2007 1st prize in Germany Lead Awards 2007 in Photography Category
* 2007 National Geographic All Roads Photography Program
* 2007 1st prize in POYI in human conflict category
* 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
* 2007 1st prize in International Headliner Award
* 2007 1st and 2nd prize in NPPA
* 2007 World Press Photo (1st place, People in the News)
* 2007 Germany Lead Awards (1st place, Photography Category)
* 2007 1st prize in National Headliner Award for Magazines, News Services, Syndicates – Spot News Photography
* 2007 Picture of the Year International (1st place, Human Conflict)
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* 2007 International Headliner Award (1st place)
* 2007 Photography Spot News in Sigma Delta Chi Award
* 2007 NPPA (1st and 2nd place)
* 2007 APME Award for the cover of the Israeli - Lebanese War (with group of Photographers)
* 2007 National Headliner Award (1st prize for Magazines, News Services, Syndicates – Spot News Photography)
* 2006 Unicef Photo of the Year honorable mention for "single picture"
* 2007 [[Sigma Delta Chi Award]] (Spot News Photography)
* 2006 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar - awarded 1st Place and best in show
* 2007 APME Award (with group of photographers, for coverage of 2006 Israel-Lebanon War)
* 2006 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 2006 1st place in spot news
* 2006 UNICEF Photo of the Year (Honorable Mention, Single Picture)
* 2006 1st' prize of the Editor and Publisher Award for Multiple Images Photo Essay and honorable mention for "single picture"
* 2006 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place, Best in Show)
* 2004 1st prize of the Editor and Publisher Award for multiple images/photo essays from Chernobyl
* 2006 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place, Spot News)
* 2003 APME News Photography Award for the coverage of Violence in the Middle East
* 2006 Editor and Publisher Award (1st place for Multiple Images Photo Essay, Honorable Mention for Single Picture)
* 2004 Editor and Publisher Award (1st place for multiple images/photo essays)
* 2003 APME News Photography Award (with AP photographers, for coverage of violence in the Middle East)

==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.odedbalilty.com Oded Balilty's website]
*[http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/09/oded-balilty-the-art-of-storytelling/#3 "TIME" article about balilty's "Jewish wedding" series ]
*[http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/so-close-yet-so-far/ "The new York Times" article about balilty's "Jewish wedding" series ]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120410061401/http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/09/oded-balilty-the-art-of-storytelling/#3 "TIME" article about Balilty's "Jewish wedding" series ]
*[http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pulitzer/pulitzer.html AP article about Balilty]
*[http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/so-close-yet-so-far/ "The New York Times" article about Balilty's "Jewish wedding" series ]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2007-Breaking-News-Photography About balilty winning the Pulitzer Price]
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2007-Breaking-News-Photography Pulitzer Prize for Balilty]
*[http://www.art.org.il/en/exhibition_about.php?id=278 About Balilty's exhibition from the Jerusalem Artist House website]
*[http://www.art.org.il/?exhibitions=hide-seek&lang=en Jerusalem Artists' House website on Balilty 2009 "Hide & Seek" exhibition]
*[http://www.amangallery.co.il/Exhibitions/MARGINAL-NOTES/Exhibitions.aspx About Balilty's exhibition "Marginal Note"]
*[http://www.amangallery.co.il/Exhibitions/MARGINAL-NOTES/Exhibitions.aspx Balilty exhibition "Marginal Note"]

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Latest revision as of 21:02, 19 May 2024

Oded Balilty
עודד בלילטי
Oded Balilty at work, Israel 2016
Born (1979-03-30) 30 March 1979 (age 45)
Jerusalem
NationalityIsraeli
OccupationDocumentary photographer

Oded Balilty (Hebrew: עודד בלילטי, born March 30, 1979, Jerusalem)[1] is an Israeli documentary photographer. He is an Associated Press (AP) photographer and won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2007.

Biography

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Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he began his career as a photographer for the Israeli army magazine Bamahane. In 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, he joined The Associated Press. In 2007, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a lone Jewish settler confronting Israeli security officers during the evacuation of a West Bank settlement outpost. He is the only Israeli photographer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize. From 2007–2008, he was based in Beijing for AP. Balilty lives in Tel Aviv and photographs current events and documentary features for AP in Israel, Palestine, and around the world.

Solo exhibitions

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  • 2015 “Sabra Traces” Eretz Israel Museum" Tel Aviv
  • 2014 “In Observation” Projex Connect, San Francisco
  • 2013 “Restraint,” N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2013 “Israel, Soviet Style,” Russian Photo Forum, Moscow, Russia
  • 2011 "Marginal Notes" N&N Amana Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2009 POV Photo festival in Tel Aviv
  • 2009 "Hide and Seek" at the Artist House in Jerusalem
  • 2008 "China", photo festival of Gijon, Spain
  • 2007 “Chernobyl Today”, Coalmine photo gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2007 Lucca Digital Photo Festival, Italy
  • 2007 Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • 2005 Coalmine photo gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2006 “Chernobyl Today”, festival du Scoop, Angers, France
  • 2000 "Reflected Reality" (with artist Anna Shapira), Z.O.A House, Tel-Aviv

Selected group exhibitions

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  • 2014 “The Double Exposure Project” Shpilman Institute For Photography, Tel Aviv
  • 2012 International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2011 Ashdod Museum – A road to nowhere
  • 2008 Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Jerusalem, portraits of Holocaust survivors
  • 2005 joint exhibition of Israeli and Palestinian photographers, War photography museum, Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • 2004 "AP Jerusalem", VISA pour L'image Perpignan, France

Awards

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  • 2014 National Headliner Award (1st place portrait category)
  • 2014 NPPA Awards (Honorable Mention portrait category)
  • 2014 Picture of the Year International (2nd place, Portrait series)
  • 2013 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place portrait and 2nd place sport feature)
  • 2013 Overseas Press Club of America (Feature Photography)
  • 2012 China International Press Photo Contest (1st place in daily life category, 2nd place in daily life and sports feature categories)
  • 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place, pictorial category)2012 Picture of the Year International (1st place, portrait)
  • 2012 Henri Nannen Prize Nomination2009 PX3 (3rd place in photojournalism general news)
  • 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist (with group of Associated Press photographers for photos of Sichuan earthquake)
  • 2009 Picture of the Year International (Award of Excellence for “Ping Pong Nation” and coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
  • 2009 PGB Award (1st place for coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
  • 2009 National Headliner Awards (Photography Portfolio)
  • 2009 NPPA Awards (Honorable Mention, Natural Disaster)
  • 2008 World Press Photo (3rd place, People in the News)
  • 2008 Picture of the Year International (3rd place, news picture story)
  • 2008 APME (for coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
  • 2008 UNICEF Photo of the Year (2nd place, coverage of Sichuan earthquake)
  • 2008 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (awards in five categories for China photography)
  • 2007 National Geographic All Roads Photography Program
  • 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
  • 2007 World Press Photo (1st place, People in the News)
  • 2007 Germany Lead Awards (1st place, Photography Category)
  • 2007 Picture of the Year International (1st place, Human Conflict)
  • 2007 International Headliner Award (1st place)
  • 2007 NPPA (1st and 2nd place)
  • 2007 National Headliner Award (1st prize for Magazines, News Services, Syndicates – Spot News Photography)
  • 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Award (Spot News Photography)
  • 2007 APME Award (with group of photographers, for coverage of 2006 Israel-Lebanon War)
  • 2006 UNICEF Photo of the Year (Honorable Mention, Single Picture)
  • 2006 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place, Best in Show)
  • 2006 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (1st place, Spot News)
  • 2006 Editor and Publisher Award (1st place for Multiple Images Photo Essay, Honorable Mention for Single Picture)
  • 2004 Editor and Publisher Award (1st place for multiple images/photo essays)
  • 2003 APME News Photography Award (with AP photographers, for coverage of violence in the Middle East)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Profile of Oded Balilty
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