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Hello,

It has been over 18 months since our last update about Kobi Israel’s Photography. So much has happened since July 2006! Most significantly, Kobi’s work has crossed over from bookshelves and virtual spaces onto gallery walls, having been exhibited at major solo shows in London, Los Angeles and Dallas. His work was also featured at leading contemporary art fairs such as Paris Photo, London Photo, AIPAD Miami and L.A. Photo. Kobi's limited edition prints are now part of important private and public collections around the world.

Kobi’s latest series of seductive images, which resulted from fifteen years of personal exploration in Cuba is due to be published in Fall 2008 by UK publisher Chris Boot.




NEW WORK

Major Updates to Kobi-Israel.com
The website has just been updated with new collections of photos.
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Serial Landscapes Cemeteries

New images added on Serial Landscapes, Love Stories and Cemeteries and.

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EXHIBITIONS

Kobi Spreads Solo Wings at UK and US Exhibitions
Dallas, US, Goss Gallery, June , 2006
London,UK, Hamiltons Gallery, January 2007
Los Angeles, US, David Gallery, November 2007
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Love Stories, Cuba (1993-2007)
Promised Lands (Cannan, America, Hampstead Heath)


Kobi’s first solo show opened at Goss Gallery in Dallas on May 24, 2006 (now The Goss-Michael Foundation). A mini retrospective of several bodies of work from the years 2000-2006 included selected images from Views, Intimate Strangers, Promised Lands & Love Stories. [links: Installation View | Goss Gallery].

Focusing on large format landscapes, Hamiltons Gallery in London exhibited fourteen of Kobi's latest body of work
Promised Lands (2004-2006) [links: Installation View | Hamiltons Gallery].

David Gallery in Los Angeles featured twenty small and large format prints from the series Intimate Strangers, Promised Lands & Love Stories. [links: David Gallery ]

 

AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Recognition on Both Sides of the Atlantic
New Images from Cuba are starting to get professional recognition
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The Association of Photographers in London hold an annual competition, the AOP Open, whose aim is to "acknowledge excellence in photography, through its diversity of styles and subject matter". Following consecutive nominations as a finalist in 2003, 2005 and 2006, Kobi’s new images from Cuba made it again in 2007. His image of Tomy (Havana, 2006) was selected for exhibition for the AOP Open 2007.

This same image was awarded a Merit by the acclaimed photography publication PDN (Photo District News) in the 2007 PIX Digital Imaging Awards and was featured in PDN's November issue.

   
Images from the series Promised Lands and Love Stories were awarded Honourable Mentions in three categories Portraits, Nudes and Waterscapes in the International Photography Awards, IPA 2007.

Parallel to London Photo 2007, The British Journal of Photography published a three-page feature offering a glimpse into Kobi's work in progress from Cuba, Love Stories.
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CHARITY DONATIONS

Kobi donates works to raise money for Charity Auctions

Supports Human Right, Aids Groups, and Israel's Museums
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Stonewall, London

A copy of Ipanema Beach raised an astonishing £10,000 ($20,000) for Stonewall, the UK’s premier organisation fighting for equality and justice for human rights, fetching the night's highest bid for a single item.

The Celebrity Auction took place at the 8th annual Stonewall Equality Dinner held at the Dorchester Hotel in London, on March 29th, 2007.
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In 2006 Kobi donated Adam Lying in Bed whcih raised £9,000 ($18,000) for Stonewall.
     
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BFAMI, London

Kobi's image Fruit Stall raised £3,250 ($6,500) for the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel held at Christie's, in London in February 2007
     
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ISRAEL AIDS TASK FORCE, Tel Aviv

Over the course of the years, Kobi has shown his support for various AIDS causes such as the Elton John AIDS Foundation and GMFA . For the last 5 consecutive years, he has donated works to Israel Aids Task Force raising over $12,000 (£6,000).
     

LOOKING FORWARD...
Kobi's 3rd Book and a Group Exhibition in Dubai

Kobi’s third book, entitled Love Stories is about to be published by UK publisher Chris Boot. More about this in the next Newsletter.

For the first time, one of Kobi's sensual male portraits will be exhibited in the Arab world, at the Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai in March 2008. Kobi's portfolio will be featured in a special collector's issue of Eyemazing magazine.

 

 

 

 
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