I graduated from film school in 1999 and moved to Berlin in 2001, where I started working as a cinematographer, producer and later as a director, shooting documentaries and branded work for some of Germany’s biggest broadcasters, agencies and corporations. In 2007 I picked up a stills camera again, closing a circle with where my camera work began. Photography has grown steadily ever since, and today my work splits roughly evenly between moving image and still photography.
Photography happens to be the more personal side of my studio, even when the brief is commercial; the close, face-to-face territory is very often the work itself.
Solo exhibitions:
2022 - "In Between Days - Shai Levy Portrait Photography, 2019-2022" / Vier & Neunzig, Berlin
Group exhibitions:
2021 - "Local Diamonds" / Circle1, Berlin
2020 - "#1" / Circle1, Berlin
2014 - "Portrait" / Kantine Aqua Carre, Berlin
2014 - "Restart" / Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 - "#12 Licht" / Kantine Aqua Carre, Berlin
Selected publications: Vogue Germany, Interview (Germany), Groove, Morgenbladet, Flanelle, Goji, PhotoVogue, Haaretz, Keyi Magazine, CAP74024.