Adi Tarkay

Born in 1962 to an artists family.

I grew up in a house full of art, surrounded by beautiful colours and patterns of art and textile that were the inspiration playground of both my late father, the artist Itzhack Tarkay and myself.

When I turned 8 years old I got my first camera from my father. I used to take many photos of my family and friend and him working, indoor and outdoors. I bought my first professional SLR camera when I was 15 and never stopped taking photos since then.

Order, common sense, time and memories always play a key role in my life.

I believe that moments are measuring practicals that exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.

By taking daily life as a subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetics, I introduce the viewers into my world of ongoing opposing forces and the intervals in between them as a stream of daily events.

My thoughts processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered- refer an associates with my dream world and music. My photos are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of in-disputability and serene observation, combined with subtle details o...

2015 Photography MasterClass at PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel-Aviv

2015 Photography workshop at NYFA (New York Film Academy), New York

2016 Lomography workshop a the Tokyo Lomography Center, Tokyo

2016 Documentary workshop at ICP (International Center of Photography), New York

2018 Fashion Photography Class at Camera Obscura School (Ron Kedmi Academy), Tel-Aviv

2018 Fashion to Art - Art to Fashion workshop at ICP, New York

Solo Exhibitions:

2016 Story of Three Halves, Fuchs Projects Gallery, New York

2018 Permanent Exhibition at Carmel Forest Spa Resort



Group Exhibitions:

2016 Street Photography, Jaffa Port Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2016 Cultures Reflections, Jaffa Port Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2016 In Between, Florentine 45 Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2017 PhotoVille, New-York

2018 Steel City, The Cuckoos Nest, Jaffa.