About

I am Avi Levy — by training an archaeologist, by instinct a photographer.

My two lives were never really separate. Fieldwork has taken me to some of the most remote and unlikely corners of the earth, places most people only ever glimpse from an airplane window, if at all. I started carrying a camera to document what I found there. It didn't take long before documentation became something else: a way of seeing.

I shoot with a Nikon on the ground and with drones in the air, moving between the intimate and the vast. Some of my strongest work happens in wild, untouched landscapes — salt flats, deserts, water that shouldn't be the color it is. But I'm just as drawn to cities: the patterns people leave behind, the geometry of streets and rooftops, the way light falls on concrete the same way it falls on stone.

What connects it all is curiosity — the same instinct that sends me digging through the past sends me looking for a new angle on the present. I'm not chasing a single subject so much as a point of view: one vantage, one frame, that makes you look twice at something you thought you already understood.

I photograph the world the way I encounter it — remote, layered, and larger than it first appears. If a print on this wall makes you want to see one of these places for yourself, that's the whole idea.

— Avi Levy