Erieta Attali was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1966. She is a fine art landscape and architecture photographer whose work spans from Eurasia to Australia and the Americas.
For the past thirty years, Attali has devoted herself to exploring the interplay between architecture and landscape. Through her pioneering work, she has forged a new path in architectural photography in which content and context are inverted. Her photography investigates how extreme conditions and challenging terrains lead humanity to reorient and recenter itself through architectural responses. Her unconventional photographic approach is grounded in a working method derived from her experience in archaeology.
After studying photography at Goldsmiths, University of London, she continued her research at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation with support from the Fulbright Foundation, and at Waseda University with support from the Japan Foundation. She completed her PhD at the RMIT School of Architecture and Design.
Between 1992 and 2002, Attali extensively photographed archaeological sites and findings for the Greek Ministry of Culture, working throughout Greece and at monuments and archaeological sites in Italy, Turkey, France, and the United Kingdom, specializing in underground burials and wall paintings.
Attali has received numerous prestigious awards and grants from institutions including the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Dreyer Foundation in Denmark, the Danish Arts Council, the Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen, the Chilean Ministry of Culture in Santiago, and the Marie Curie Research Fellowship, among others.
Her photographic work has been exhibited internationally in museums and cultural institutions around the world and has been widely published by leading international design magazines and publishing houses.
Between 2003 and 2018, Attali taught photography at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She has also lectured and taught at numerous institutions worldwide, including the University of Tokyo, the University of Sydney, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, RMIT University, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, among others. From 2020 to 2023, she was artist-in-residence at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Fondation Hellénique at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. She was adjunct professor of architectural photography at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union from 2020 to 2023 and visiting professor at the National University of Singapore from 2021 to 2023.
Her current photographic research focuses on the archaeological landscapes of Delos and the Aegean Sea, as well as the sacred spaces of medieval and contemporary Japan.
Attali is the editor and co-author, together with Kengo Kuma, of the monograph Glass | Wood: Erieta Attali on Kengo Kuma, published by Hatje Cantz in 2015, and editor and co-author, together with Marc Mimram, of the three-volume monograph Marc Mimram: Structure | Light, Landscapes of Gravity Through the Lens of Erieta Attali, published by Hatje Cantz in 2019.
Her photographic monograph Periphery | Archaeology of Light, published by Hatje Cantz, received the prestigious German Photography Prize 19|20 in the Conceptual Art Photography category. She is also the co-author, with Kengo Kuma, of the monograph Mirror in the Mirror, published by Hartmann Books, which received the DAM Architectural Book Award.
Attali is the author of Erieta Attali on the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus. Approaching Resistance (Stuttgart: Hartmann Books, 2026). She is currently preparing three new photography monographs in collaboration with Spector Books, ArchiTangle Books, and Hartmann Projects Verlag.
Erieta Attali currently holds a research affiliation with the Académie d'architecture and is represented by Galerie BSL.
