Reza Green Photojournalist

Reza Green is an American-Israeli photographer living in Jerusalem whose interest in human rights law has driven her pursuits in photojournalism.

Reza is particularly interested in the invisible seam lines in Israel/Palestine, where narratives and realities are interchangeable and fungible. Her recent work has covered: documenting Palestinian “Women of the Sun” for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz [LINK]; the aftermath of the refugee influx to Lesvos, Greece, for Haaretz [LINK]; Christian communities in the Galilee who lost their villages but retained their churches and their collective identities; the Black Hebrew community that has flourished in southern Israel for last forty years; a Catholic order devoted to bridging the gap between Jews and Christians; Conflict between Palestinians and Jews in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah; and efforts to identify Yemenite children allegedly stolen from parents in the 1950s.

Reza has always been painfully aware of the inherent difficulty in seeing, as examplified in her earliest photographs, made in her career as a scientist, using a pre-digital electron microscope to capture influenza viruses, tiny particles only visible when bombarded with a stream of electrons instead of light. These days, whether in formal portraits or in journalism, Reza puts her training to use to depict each reality with precision, but a precision that is fluid and open-ended and enables the viewer to participate in the process of discovery itself. (See, Jerusalem backstory project, which invites viewers to imagine who the subects of a particular photo might be.)

Reza can be reached for assignments, prints, and comments at rezagreenphoto@gmail.com

Instagram handle: rezagreenphoto with link below.