
Photography: Avi Rokach
Local Testimony 2019
Gallery
2019
Photo of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport
Uri Gershuni, photographer, artist, and lecturer
Tomer Heymann, documentary author and director
Ilan Itzhayek, editor-in-chief of Yedioth Ahronoth’s Xnet website
Vardi Kahana, photographer, curator and member of the Local Testimony editorial board
Uriel Sinai, photographer and documentary film director
Rina Castelnuovo, photo-journalist and director
Guy Raz, photographer and photography curator of Muza - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Etty Schwartz, photographer, curator and lecturer
Photo of the year
Ofer Vaknin
Haaretz
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, at the presentation of his party’s list of candidates for the second election campaign of 2019. In the first elections of the year Yisrael Beiteinu held the balance of power.
Expo Tel Aviv
30 July 2019
News
1st prize
Series
News
Rami Shlush
Haaretz
On June 30 Solomon Tekah, a youth of Ethiopian background, was killed when a policeman fired a shot. The circumstances of the shooting are still unclear. The next day saw the beginning of a series of protests by the Ethiopian community, which included blockings of main roads in the Krayot, and later spread all over
Israel. Later on the protests became violent, leading to severe clashes with security forces and hundreds of arrests.
Single
News
David Bachar
Haaretz
The murder scene of Mahmoud Hajaj and Rima Abu Gheit, an engaged couple in their twenties. The double murder shocked the public and led to severe criticism of the Israeli Police for their long-standing failure to deal with illegal weapons, especially in the Arab sector.
Daily Life
Potrtaits
Culture and Art
1st prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Reuters
Corinna Kern
The new central bus station was opened in 1993 with the hope of improving the condition of one of the most problematic sections of the city. But instead of the modern shopping center that was supposed to take shape there, the stores’ shutters remained closed for years and the maze of passages became an eclectic mixture of neglect, trade and underground culture.
Nature and Environment
2nd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Yasmin Lahav
An artistic view of nature. Once a month the photographer gathers a variety of plants growing in the forest next to her neighborhood in Kiryat Tivon, arranges them in a bowl of water and photographs them.
The series documents the variety of plants in the forest and the transformations they undergo during the course of the year.
Single
Nature and environment
Bea Bar Kallos
Plastic, in its various forms, constitutes a significant portion of our life, but it degrades very slowly and causes severe damage to the environment. Recently, the way we perceive it has changed: no longer an easy-to-use material, but a public enemy. This photo is part of a project in which families were portrayed surrounded by the domestic plastic waste they created in the course of one week.























































