ABOUT - ELIOR BLIAH

Landscape photographer.

PORTRAIT · SELF, 2024
Elior Bliah

The gap between what a place feels like and what a photograph can hold.

The first time I stood before a landscape that silenced me, I was in my early twenties. I did not reach for my phone immediately. I just stood there.

That gap — between what you feel in a place and what a photograph can hold — is why I shoot. Not to document. To close the distance.

I started with a phone, the way most people do. But I quickly understood that a strong image begins long before the shutter. It begins with planning the right season, arriving before first light, understanding where the sun will break and how the terrain will catch it. Photography became a discipline. A way of seeing before looking.

Over the years I have photographed in Israel, Switzerland, Iceland, Nepal, the Philippines, and elsewhere — always chasing the specific quality of light that exists for a few minutes and then disappears. I shoot extreme weather, high altitude, dramatic coastlines. Not for the drama, but because those are the conditions that produce a sky worth waiting for.

Every image here is the result of that process: arrival, observation, patience — and sometimes, luck.

I sell prints and digital downloads because I believe a photograph should live somewhere. On a wall, in a room, where it can change the quality of a moment rather than sit in a folder. If my work brings a sense of stillness, scale, or distance into your space — that is exactly what it was made to do.

BY THE NUMBERS
12
years
18
countries
Editions
of 25
WORKINGSince 2015
EDITIONS25 per work
CONTACTprints@eliorbliah.com
INSTAGRAM@eliorbliah
“If a place lets you stay long enough, it begins to show you what it actually looks like.”
- FIELD JOURNAL, ZERMATT, OCT 2023
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