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Naomi Leshem, an Israeli photographer, was born in 1963, in Jerusalem.
In 1991 her husband, an Israeli air force navigator, was killed in a fighter plane crash.
Leshem began as a professional architectural photographer. In 1995 she began to use the technique of "Polaroid Transfer", in which the photographic image is transferred to paper by embedding emulsion, and has often created in this technique. In 2006 she stopped working as a commercial photographer and focused on art. The series "Runways" (2009) portrays young women on runways in an Air Force Base. In 2011 Leshem introduced the "Sleepers" series, photographs of young people in their own bedrooms in Germany, Switzerland, France, Israel and the United States.
Leshem has thus far published two books based on her exhibits: "Sleepers" and "Runways". She also teaches at the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono.

Education

1985-1984 Studied languages and general studies, Switzerland
1985-1987 Studied photography at Hadassah College, Jerusalem
1995 Dublin Studied the Polaroid Transfer technique

Awards And Prizes

1998 Citation at the experimental and personal photograph category, Photogragher of the Year Competition
2008 The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv