About Gal Shiran

Gal Shiran is a photographer based in Tel Aviv.

Her street work is instinctive and fast. She shoots from the hip, chasing what might otherwise disappear — the unplanned moment, the overlooked detail, the crack in something familiar. Storefronts, strangers, a scooter in the rain. Street photography is as candid as the medium gets: no staging, no direction, no second chance. Just the world, caught.

Her abstract work inverts this. These images are made in the darkroom without a camera — light exposed directly onto photographic paper, chemistry used as a brush. They document nothing. Photography makes an implicit promise — a moment fixed, arrested against time. These images run the other way: toward disorder, deterioration, the dimming of things. The work lives in that gap, and in the viewer's trust in a medium that is, here, doing something else entirely.

Both practices start from the same premise — that photography makes a claim on reality. One upholds it. The other confronts it.

Shiran holds an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2023). In 2024 she held a solo exhibition at the Dina Recanati Art Foundation.