Julia Komissaroff (b. Latvia) has lived and worked in Jerusalem since 1991. Regarded as one of the most important emerging photographers in Israel today, she began her documentary career photographing Ethiopian children in the Givat-ha Matos Immigration Camp for a project on resettlement communities between 1998 and 2000, and in 2002 photographed the peace movement in Northern Ireland as a model for peace activism in the Middle East. For the last decade, she has been engaged in two large projects: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the fortunes of ethnic minorities in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Her photographs have been exhibited regularly in Moscow, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Minsk, Belarus.
(written by Anthony W. Lee Professor and Chair of Art History at Mount Holyoke College)

Bibliography:

2009 – “A Heavy Burden” Internally Displaced in Georgia. Stories of People from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Book published by The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

2009 – “Fresh M.I.L.K.: Friends, Families, Lovers & Laughter” published by “PQ Blackwell” Auckland, New Zealand

2010 – “Frames of Reality” – Peres Center for Peace, Local Testimony photography initiative bring Israeli and Palestinian photojournalists, documentary photographers together for joint retrospective.

Website: http://www.komissaroff.com/