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Micha Bar-Am, photographer, born 1930, Berlin, Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in 1936 with his parents Moshe (Max) and Hannah (Herta) Angley and grew up in Haifa. He adopted the surname Bar-Am in 1944. During the 1940s he worked in the Haifa port. He was one of the founding members in 1949 of the kibbutz Malkia. He was a member of the kibbutz Gesher HaZiv in the years 1953-57. In 1954 he bought his first camera and taught himself photography. Since the late 1950s, Bar-Am has published his photographs in newspapers and periodicals in Israel and abroad. 1957-1966 Worked as press photographer for "Bamachaneh;" 1967 Member of ''Magnus'', an international group of photographers; 1968-1975 Israel Magazine; 1968-1990 official Middle-East photographer of the "New York Times"; 1974 Founder of "Photographic Centre (ICP)", New York. 1977-1992 Travelled extensively taking photographs which were later exhibited: West Africa, Nepal, India, Vietnam, Himalayas, Israel's wars. Advisor and curator for art, Tel Aviv Museum (1977-92) Since the 1950s, Bar-Am’s photographs have documented all the major events in Israel. He is very well-known for his covering of the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars. While his main work has been journalistic-documentary, many of his photographs bear the tendency to highlight the photographer’s view by means of highlighting the planes in photography. He has travelled extensively taking photographs which were later exhibited in West Africa, Nepal, India, Vietnam, Himalayas, Israel's wars. Advisor and curator for art, Tel Aviv Museum.

Awards And Prizes

1985 Fulbright Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
1985 Neuman Scholarship, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
1993 Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Rita Poretsky Prize for Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2000 Israel Prize for Photography