To Rahel Rosenzweig photography is literally painting with light.

This is reflected in her newest body of work, “The Unexpected Collaboration” which is an involved compilation of unmanipulated (no photoshop used) black and white and color images.  

Having started in the mid-to-late 1970’s as a young fine-art black and white photographer, she learned to be responsible for developing her own film and printing her own black and white silver gelatin photographs. Rosenzweig became quite accomplished having combined her innate artist's eye and the skills of the camera. Over the most recent years she has ventured into digital color imagery allowing her to synthesize her fine art photography and her abstract expressionist painting.

Born in New York City, raised outside of Chicago, many of her favorite presents have been cameras. First, at a single digit age, her Kodak Instamatic, complete with magic flashcubes from her maternal Grandmother to her beloved Olympus OM1, her high school graduation gift in 1975, which started her on the artist’s journey. This was a simple and completely manual film camera which she says “she would still be using today, if film wasn’t virtually obsolete and that her Oly didn’t owe her even one more photograph after all these years of faithful creative service.”

Having lived for over 30 years on the Central Coast of California in Carmel and Monterey, Rosenzweig made aliyah to Israel in 2011 and now lives in Haifa.  She says “now I live in the original Carmel”.

Rosenzweig has had the opportunity to exhibit her work throughout the United States, abroad and in Israel, where she received an artist grant from the state in 2012.