Photographer, Artist, Teacher​

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Ameera Zyian, Born 1977 Lives and works in Yarka, Israel

Graduated from the Haifa University's Arts program and earned master's degree from there. Ziyan's Artwork focuses on staged photography which emphasizes the act of the physical character's absence by evinced it with the high presence of the scene's objects. Women from her Israeli Druze society are mainly the object of Zian's Art beside other other social aspects such as Identity and gender in the contemporary Druze culture.

As an artist, my main medium is staged photography. I build my works as a planed composition where the image, the colors and everything in the frame has an extremely specific intension applying the symbolic narrative that I want to tell. I often say that I want to create a kind of photography that people will be able to "read". 

As a woman coming from Kfar Yarka and the Druze community, my work is reacting to both environments I am torn between: the modern and the traditional. At the center of my creative process there is a kind of "stage" that I create for the photographed scenes.