Boris Carmi

During World War II Carmi served in the British Army, working on aerial photography and map-making in Italy and Egypt.

He was one of few photographers active in Israel at this time and recorded historically important moments, construction projects, transit camps and waves of immigration as well as wartime scenes.

During the 1956 war with Egypt he tended to photograph the deserted landscape of the Sinai Peninsula with Egyptian soldiers' bootprints rather than casualties or scenes of destruction.

In the following decades he produced several further exhibitions and publications, including volumes of portrait and landscape photography and a children's book entitled The wonderful adventures of the flamingos.

However, his first solo exhibition in Europe was held posthumously, at the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2004 and at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt in 2005.