Photographer's Profile

Konstantin Bloch

Tel Aviv University, Israel

I was raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine and since the early 90’s I have been based near Tel Aviv in Israel. As a biologist, I studied symbiosis between different species living in peaceful and beneficial relationships. In my work, macrophotography has been a very useful tool to understand symbiotic relationships between different microorganisms. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and most recent Hamas massacre followed by Hamas-Israel war shocked me and inspired me to express my vision on these terrible wars and other world conflicts through the prism of macrophotography images of amazing symbiotic lichens growing on the rocks of Israel.