At the age of 8, Pavel Wolberg moved to Israel from Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) with his mother and grandmother, and grew up in the southern town of Beersheba in the Negev desert.
[5] He participated in the 2007 Venice Biennale exhibition "Think With The Senses, Feel With the Mind", curated by Robert Storr.
[9][10][11][12] Since 2010, Wolberg has been working as well on art projects in Ethiopia (the Bodi tribe), the Post-Soviet states such as Ukraine, and in Japan.
[13][14][15] He photographs subjects such as war, terror, occupation, the army, intifada, ultra orthodox Judaism and Hasidic communities, and downtown Tel Aviv, usually in large or panoramic formats.
[16][17] Lindsay Harris wrote in the catalogue of the 52 Venice Biennale: "In their poignant representation of potent, even unsettling imagery, Wolberg's photographs evoke the gritty drama of traditional photojournalism, such as the black-and-white wartime photographs of Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and other members of Magnum Photos.