About Hedva Rokach

Hedva Rokach specializes in narrative artistic photography, capturing subjects in their authentic surroundings with natural lighting and without directing them. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in museums in Israel, the United States, and Georgia. She has published several art books, and her works have won awards in competitions in London, Paris, Tokyo, and Budapest.

Her photograph series Japanese Sushi Girls was published in an album of the same name in both English and Hebrew (Itay Bahur Publishing, 2024). Works from this series were exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa (2024) and at the Maine Jewish Museum, USA (2025).

Her photograph album Dolls, Wadi Ara is scheduled to be published in 2025 in a trilingual edition: English, Arabic, and Hebrew (will be published by Itay Bahur Publishing). This album contains works taken in Arab communities in Wadi Ara after the October 7th massacre and during the war in Gaza (Iron Swords).

Her photograph album Catalog 2024 includes selected works from eleven series and was published in English and Hebrew editions (published by Itay Bahur Publishing, 2024).

Her photograph album Tbilisi Dream was published in a trilingual edition (English, Georgian, and Hebrew, published by Itay Bahur Publishing, 2017), and was chosen to represent twenty-five years of diplomatic relations between Georgia and Israel. Works from it were shown in solo exhibitions at the University of Gori, Georgia (2022) and the Basis Art School in Herzlya, Israel (2017).

Her photography series The Karate Kids (Viktor Raviev and the Martial Arts Academy) was shown at the “Exhibition at the Intersection” as part of the Or Akiva protest against Israeli judicial reform (2023) and won awards in Tokyo and Budapest.

Her photography series Ditsi and Arbo, Villages on the Occupation Line, which depicts life in the closed military zone bordering Georgian territory occupied by Russia in 2008, won an award in London (2023).
Her photography series Sevgi, World Music in a Shelter, follows an ensemble of Azerbaijani and Caucasian world music musicians practicing in a missile shelter in Or Akiva, Israel, and won an award in Paris (2024).

Gilad Reichenbaum’s film, ‘Artist at the Front – Struggle for a Better Place,’ about Hadva Rokach