Shai Zakai
Appearance
Shai Zakai is a photographer, artist, and ecological activist.[1]
Her most well known piece of art is 'Concrete Creek', a three-year project starting in 1999 documenting the cleanup of a concrete polluted creek in the Valley of Elah. The piece includes video and photo documentary of the cleanup and sculpture created from the cleaned up waste.[2][3]
Zakai founded the Israeli Forum for Ecological Art in 1999 to encourage the development of ecological art in Israel and the rest of the world.[4][5]
References
- ^ "Shai Zakai - Ecological artist, photographer". www.shaizakai.com. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ "Jewish Enviro-Artists Have the Whole World in Their Hands". The Forward. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ "Artist Statement: Concrete Creek 1999 - 2002 - Shai Zakai". Green Museum. 2010.
- ^ Karin Kloosterman (7 March 2009). "Nature's Social Worker, Ecological Artist Shai Zakai".
- ^ Dana Gilerman (1 April 2005). "Jean d'Arc of the Ela Valley". Haaretz.