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tali mayer (born 22 of june 1989 ) is an Israel/Palestine basses photojournalist and documentary photographer. her work often focuses on youth, especially the experiences of youth in socially disadvantaged communities.

life and work
born in petah tivka to jewish parents of hungarian origen, she finished the yedidut high school in hod ha sharon in 2007, and started photographing professionally in 2009, at the haaretz newspaper, where she soon became a photography editor. in 2012 she took part in her first exhibition in tel aviv. and spent the following year photographing violence towards woman, and families living under the poverty line. for witch she won the 1st prize award in edut mekomit - the main yearly award and exhibition of documentary photographers in israel/palestine. witch she won again the following year in the urban culture category. in 2014 she went to the eastern Ukraine at the onset of the inner Ukrainian conflict, and photographed the lives of young miners in the breakaway region of the donbas, together with another photographer, janos ciala. their work was published in al jazeera magazine, and gaine positive reaction. for this work they were shortlisted for the sony world picture award in 2015. in the summer of 2014, she was covering riots in occupied east Jerusalem, where she was injured by a rubber bullet fired by the police, in her face, but returned to work following surgery and recovery. during 2015 she went to Sierra Leon volunteering for the international Ebola response, and later that year returned to Ukraine and photographed the Jewish community of zakarpatia.