Untitled, 1996 (from The Soldiers Series)

Adi Nes

1996

Photograph of man in kippah with shirt off flexing his bicep outside of tent.
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Creator Bio

Adi Nes

b. 1966

Israeli photographer Adi Nes is the son of Iranian and Kurdish immigrants who came to Israel in the 1950s. Among his best-known works is Soldiers, a series of staged photographs of Israeli soldiers, which aroused controversy for its homoerotic imagery. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at museums in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Nes is the recipient of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation Award (2005).

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