Tomer Ifrah was born in Israel in 1981. His journey into photography began over two decades later when he took up studies at Camera Obscura – The School Of Arts in Tel Aviv. His studies period led him to photograph his first project in Ethiopia, and eventually inspired him to pursue the medium full-time. He began travelling widely, working in countries such as Russia, Brazil, India and Kazakhstan on independent documentary projects and on assignments for various publications. His photography has been published by The New Yorker, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, CNN, and Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine, among others.

In his photography, Tomer strives to elevate scenes of everyday life into powerful images. He seeks to find beauty in the mundane, telling stories through poignant glimpses of history, culture and society. He has applied this approach to a range of subjects including female incarceration in Israel, urban development in Kazakhstan, and tourism and tradition in Georgia. Most recently, for his project Metro East, he documented life in Europe’s post-Soviet countries, capturing the rise of modern societies amongst relics of a distant, but not forgotten past.