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Photo: Miri Nagler | Local Testimony 2024
Dear photographer community,
Dear photographers,
Please find below the detailed stages of selecting the winning photos, the jury members, and information about the prizes to be awarded to the selected works.
Stages of Photo Selection
Selection of photos for the Local Testimony exhibition consists of three stages
Participating in the first stage of selection:
Ilia Yefimovich – exhibition curator
Vardi Kahana – board member
Nir Elias – jury representative
In the second and third stages, in which the Photo of the Year, Series of the Year and the 1st Prize in each category are awarded, the participants are:
Nir Elias – photojournalist and director of the photography department of the Reuters news agency in Israel
Ilan Itzhayek – journalist, editor in the Yedioth Ahronoth/ynet Group and head of the journalism track at Sapir Academic College
Miki Kratsman – Artist-activist and lecturer in the photography department of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Guy Raz – photography curator, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Giora Salmi – photographer, educator, and director of the Geographic Photography School
Nurit Yarden – artist, instructor, curator and lecturer on photography
Sagit Zluf Namir – artist, lecturer and photography curator
The Prizes for the Winning Photographs
This year, the Local Testimony board will be continuing the tradition of awarding prizes to the photographers whose photos are selected for the top places by the jury. The total prize money is ₪30,000 shekel, shared equally between:
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Photo of the Year – in memory of Roee Idan, sponsored by the Union of Journalists in Israel
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Series of the Year – sponsored by the Local Testimony board
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Video of the Year – creation prize, “Shomrim”, The Center for Media and Democracy.
The prize will be devoted to the creation of a new video work in cooperation with the Shomrim board, which will assist with research, writing and production. The new joint work will be exhibited in the Local Testimony 2026 exhibition.
Sincerely,
The Local Testimony board
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