[3] His Zionist convictions made him emigrate to the Land of Israel, then Mandate Palestine, already in 1922.

Beginning in the 1920s, his photographs helped shape the world's perception of the Zionist enterprise.

But Shmuel Joseph Schweig is equally renowned as Israel's first artistic photographer of landscape and archaeology.

Schweig is considered one of the most important of those who fashioned the image of Palestine, beginning in the 1920s, and he is identified with the Zionist enterprise and the nation-building project of the Jewish people.

[3] Schweig produced at the request of the office of the Secretary of State for the Colonies an album of Tegart forts known as "The Police Stations Plan 1940–1941", "The Wilson Brown Buildings" or "From Dan to Be'er Sheva".