Shai Zakai
Photographer, artist, and ecological activist known for her artworks involving water reclamation (born 1957)
About Shai Zakai
Born 1957. Shai Zakai is an Israeli artist.
Shai Zakai is a photographer, artist, and ecological activist known for her artworks involving water reclamation.
Life Zakai was born in Tel Aviv in 1957. She studied at Hadassah College, Jerusalem and at Hebrew University.
Work Zakai's best-known piece of art is Concrete Creek, a three-year project started in 1999 that documented the cleanup of a concrete-polluted creek in the Valley of Elah. The piece includes video and photo documentary of the cleanup, as well as a sculpture created from the cleaned-up waste.
Zakai founded the Israeli Forum for Ecological Art in 1999 to encourage the development of ecological art in Israel and the world.
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Who is Shai Zakai?
photographer, artist, and ecological activist known for her artworks involving water reclamation (born 1957)
When was Shai Zakai born?
Shai Zakai was born in 1957 in Tel Aviv.
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Shai Zakai is an artist.
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Shai Zakai is Israeli.
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