Ohad Maiman was born in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
in 1977; upon completing his studies he served for 3 years in the
Israel Defense Forces, traveled extensively in the
Far East
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and
South America
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, eventually settling down in
New York City
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in 1999. In 2003, he graduated in philosophy and visual arts from
Columbia University
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. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Upon his graduation, Ohad Maiman has co-founded A Matter of Substance with
Eytan Rockaway
Eytan Rockaway is a film director, writer and producer.
After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, he co-founded A Matter of Substance, an entertainment company.
Rockaway directed and produced '' The Abandoned'', which was an offic ...
- a cross platform media/entertainment entity spanning the fields of
music
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,
film, and
television
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. In 2007, the company's focus shifted to a new TV Channel - Amos TV.
Maiman has shown his photography in various group shows, and a solo show at the Richard Avedon studio in December 2005. His photographs and writings from '04-'07 are now collected in the trilogy 'Theory of Wants', a book published October 2008 by Damiani Editore, along a solo show at Milk Gallery. He is represented in New York by
Carlo Zeitschel, at CVZcontemporary. He is having a show in the Fall of 2011 at the
Richard Young Richard Young may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Richard Young (cinematographer) (1939–2010), American cinematographer
* Richard Young (photographer) (born 1947), English society and celebrity photographer
*Richard Young (actor) (born 1955), ...
Gallery.
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General references
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References
External links
Ohad Maiman's Official WebsiteA Matter of Substance WebsiteA Matter of Substance Television WebsiteSpecial Design Project by Ohad Maiman
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Israeli photographers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)