Martin Barzilai

Martin Barzilai was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He graduated in 1994 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière in photography in Paris. His first interest was in the historical, political and social issues of his native continent. He has also produced numerous photo reports on these themes in Greece, France, Tunisia and Israel/Palestine (New York Times, Rolling Stone, Le Monde…). Between 2011 and 2015, in Buenos Aires, he was a member of the Sub cooperative. with whom he produced the Huis clos project (exhibited at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, among others). He has been selected for the Argentinean national visual arts fair (2014 and 2015). He received the first prize of the book at the Rendez-Vous Photo festival in Strasbourg for Refuzniks published by Libertalia (2018). In 2023, he published Cimetière fantôme - Thessalonique (Creaphis), supported by the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah. He just published a new book : Nous refusons (Libertalia) (2025) supported by Amnesty International. His work has been exhibited in Paris, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Los Angeles. After Barcelona and Buenos Aires, he currently teaches photography in Paris.