About me

Born in 1967 in a small village in the south of Israel, Eitan Vitkon is an acclaimed contemporary photographer whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums  worldwide. In 1996, Eitan moved to New York from Tel Aviv, to continue studying architecture, eventually receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute in 1999. His interest in urbanism and design from a physical and emotional standpoint inevitably spilled into his image making, culminating in what now is an impressive body of work spanning close to 20 years.

Vitkon, specializes in long exposure and multi frame photography and during the past 20 years he has been obsessed by the paradoxes of time and movement specifically in architectural perspectives. The camera is an extension to his eye, tracing movement in architectural spaces while slowing down time and durations into his works. During his career he has been focusing on the passage of time in a still frame in various and virtuous experiments such as photographing the city through water, capturing reflective scattered moments of urban life or collecting obsessively local materials into the studio and projecting the images of the city on piles of brick or thorns or soup bubbles. These experiments produce new methods of discovery,  exploring hidden significant qualities and intangible truths of minute moments in our daily lives into vivid and live images.