Draft:Igal Stulbach

Igal Stulbach (Hebrew: יגאל שטולבך; born January 3, 1949) is an Israeli photographer, a visual artist and a documentary filmmaker.

Early life
Stulbach was born in Kraków, Poland in 1949, to parents who survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1959, and since then, he has lived in Bat Yam. Stulbach was drafted in 1967 to the IDF, and served in the navy as an electronics equipment developer and instructor. Before starting his artistic activity, Stulbach was a businessman.

Art career
Stulbach created a documentary film called “Group portrait - Short Monologues by Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors”. It was broadcast on Israel's Channel 10 and was screened in several cinematheques across Israel.

Stulbach is known for his nocturnal photographs. Stulbach’s visual art and photography has been displayed in various galleries and exhibitions in Israel and all around the world, and has been published in magazines both in print and online.

Stulbach’s artistic practice is characterized by a continuous exploration of the boundaries between still and moving images, reflecting a futuristic view on the evolution of art towards digital mediums .

Awards
In 2022, Stulbach won a gold medal in the Tokyo International Foto Awards, for his work “Sitting”. In 2023 Stulbach won gold in the MUSE awards (Category: Architecture Photography - Urban Exploration). Also that year, Stulbach was Highly commended in the Siena International Photo Awards

Festivals

 * 2016 - "Group portrait" - Korea International Expat Film Festival - Seoul
 * 2018 - "7102" - Video art section - Artrooms Roma
 * 2019 - "IL19" - AVIFF – Art Film Festival Cannes France
 * 2019 - Deus Ex Terra - Con Temporary Art Observatorium - Lavagana, Italy
 * 2020 - "Night movie" - Photo Is:rael - Tel Aviv. Israel
 * 2020 - "Sun loop" - Mister Vorky - Ruma, Serbia
 * 2021 - "Walk in Carmel market" - Fixion Fest - Chile

Exhibitions

 * 2022 - Motion blur - Praxis photo center - Minneapolis, USA
 * 2023 - Urban - PH21 - Budapest, Hungary
 * 2023 - Cityscapes - Blank wall - Athens, Greece
 * 2023 - Still - Art fluent - Boston, USA
 * 2023 - Darkness falls - The Glasgow gallery of photography - UK
 * 2023 - Silence - PH21 - Budapest, Hungary
 * 2023 - Grayscale - Decode - Tucson, USA
 * 2023 - Night - Blank wall - Athens, Greece
 * 2023 - "IL19" - Creative photo awards - Siena, Italy
 * 2023 - Chroma - Artly Mix - Sao Paulo, Brazil
 * 2023 - Mimesis - LoosenArt - Rome, Italy
 * 2023 - Tell me a story - Colorado photographic arts center - Denver USA
 * 2023 - ChrismArt - Golden duck - Budapest, Hungary
 * 2023 - Contemporary Venice 13th edition - Itsliquid - Venice, Italy
 * 2024 - Green - Midwest Center for Photography - Wichita, USA
 * 2024 - Black & White – Independent & Image Art space – Chongqing, China

Magazines

 * 2022 - "Tel Aviv night" - Dodho - Spain
 * 2022 - "Autumn nights" - The eye of photography - France
 * 2023 - The psychology of night - Lightreadings - Greece
 * 2023 - "Autumn nights" - Dodho - Spain
 * 2023 - Issue14 - Al-tiba9 - Spain
 * 2023 - Out of the box - Lens - Israel
 * 2022 - "Autumn nights" - Tagree - Germany
 * 2024 - Interview - Itsliquid - Italy
 * 2024 - Red line - ProgresFestival Magazine - Italy

Awards

 * 2022 - "Sitting" - TIFA Tokyo foto awards - Gold
 * 2023 - "IL19" - Creative photo awards Siena - Highly commended
 * 2023 - "South Tel Aviv" - MUSE - Gold