CIRCLE-24 member: Eldad MAESTRO - Israel

CIRCLE-24: about Eldad MAESTRO

Eldad Maestro - Israel  (1954, Israel)

Studied at Tel-Aviv University in the deparment of Film and Television, where he received his BFA; he then studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts in Ramat Hasharon and attended advanced studies in fashion photography in Milan, Italy.
Eldad Maestro has made a few short-length films, video art and experimental films. He became a leading figure in the field of commercial photography, more specifically in portrait, fashion, advertising and theatre where he created his unique style. After having run a studio in Tel-Aviv for nine years, he took a sabbatical year in 1990, closed the studio and travelled to the Far East. Back in Israel, he made photo etchings with the pictures he had snapped in Japan, giving birth to the present exhibition “Fields”.

Eldad has also been a teacher at the school where he himself once studied - the Academy of Arts in Ramat Hasharon - and also at the Camera Obscura in Tel-Aviv.

Exhibitions:

• 1982 Museum of Modern Art, Haifa: the Biennale of Photography
• 1985 Camera Obscura, Tel-Aviv: 21 Photographers
• Phil Perkis Workshop
• 1987 Jerusalem Theatre: exhibition of theatre photography
• 1988 Tel-Aviv Museum: exhibition “Sky Limit” (”Kav-Rakia”
• Jerusalem Theatre: exhibition of works - Israel Festiva
• 1989 Café Recital: exhibition of theatre photography
• 1993 Yad Labanim, Haifa: photographs from Kyoto
• 1994 Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo: “Fields”

אלדד מאסטרו סטודיו לצילום www.eldadmaestro.com 2024