Erieta Attali was born in 1966 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Is an architectural and landscape photographer specializing in fine art, whose work spans from Eurasia to Australia and the Americas.
Attali has dedicated more than two decades to exploring the relationship between architecture and landscape in the far reaches of the world. Her photography investigates how extreme conditions and challenging terrains drive humanity to reorient itself and rediscover itself through architectural responses.
After studying photography at Goldsmiths, University of London, she continued her research at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York, with support from the Fulbright Foundation, and at Waseda University in Tokyo, with support from the Japan Foundation. She completed her PhD at the RMIT School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia.
Between 1992 and 2002, Attali extensively photographed archaeological sites and finds for the Greek Ministry of Culture, working throughout Greece and at various monuments and archaeological sites in Italy, Turkey, France, and the United Kingdom, specializing in underground burials and wall paintings.
Attali has received several prestigious awards and grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Graham Foundation in Chicago, 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.
His photographic work has been exhibited internationally and published by prestigious international design magazines and publishing houses.
Between 2003 and 2018, she taught architectural photography at Columbia University's GSAPP and has lectured at numerous universities worldwide, including the University of Tokyo, the University of Sydney, the Architectural Association in London, the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile, RMIT University in Melbourne, and the Technion in Haifa, among others. Attali has been an adjunct professor of architectural photography at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, New York, since January 2020, and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore since January 2021.
She is the editor and co-author, with Kengo Kuma, of the monograph "Glass | Wood: Erieta Attali on Kengo Kuma," published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2015), and the editor and co-author, 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 (Berlin, 2019).
Her photographic monograph, Periphery | Archaeology of Light, published by Hatje Cantz, was awarded the prestigious German Photography Prize 19|20 in the Conceptual Art Photography category.
She is currently preparing three new photography monographs in collaboration with Spector Books in Leipzig, ArchiTangle Books in Berlin, and Hartmann Projects Verlag in Stuttgart.
Attali is a visiting researcher at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
