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Bio

Panda Award winning macro specialist and filmmaker, based in Bristol, UK /Tel Aviv, Israel
 

My journey as a photographer started at the age of 13, when I was given my first compact camera.

I quickly fell in love with the ability to tell a story through the lens, and taught myself as much as I could about photography and cinema, eventually making my way into studying film and art in Thelma Yellin national art high school.  After graduating I was recruited to the Israeli police to serve my national service as a photographer /filmmaker in the police media division for 3 intensive years, during which I was given the opportunity to work with a wide variety of cameras and software types in various, unconventional and challenging scenarios.

I have always loved animals and nature, as well as art and photography. when I finished my term as a police photographer  I found wildlife photography & filmmaking to be the perfect combination of art and science and decided to chase my dream career as a wildlife cinematographer by relocating to Bristol, UK and completing an MA in Wildlife Filmmaking (UWE).

Today I specialise in macro photography and natural history content for blue chip productions and social media outlets. My skills have contributed to productions for clients such as BBC, National Geographic and NHK world. 


My constantly evolving instagram photography project- @space_invaders_macro  focuses on finding tiny, wild stories and sharing them with the world.

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Online Publications
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"How I let hundreds of mosquitos bite me for the perfect shot"

Australian photography magazine

Petapixel
 

"How I shot my own wildlife short for less than a 100$"

Petapixel

"How I Captured a giant Wasp
Paralyzing a Tarantula"

The daily mail online

Metro news

Petapixel

"The photographer who documents nature in small packages  (Hebrew)"

ynet- Israeli news online (hebrew)
 

Exhibitions & Awards

Sony World Photography Awards
Somerset house, London
April 26 - May 16 ,2013

Youth category shortlist

Wildlife Photographer of the Year -Israel 2018

Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
March 22 - October 1 - 2018

1st place- nightlife category​

3rd place- Invertebrates
 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year -Israel 2020
Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
1st place- Social life catergory

3rd place- Man and Nature category
 

Wildscreen Panda Awards

2022
Winner

Emergin talent category

Kit Experience

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Cameras:
RED GEMINI

ARRI ALEXA 35

PANASONIC S1H

SONY FS7
SONY a7Siii

SONY a6500
CANON C100

CANON 6d


Lenses:
CANON CN2
0 50-1000MM
LAOWA 24MM Probe lens
TAMRON 24-70 f2.8

TAMRON 24-70 f2.8

CANON 100mm macro f2.8 L

CANON MP-E65 EXTREME MACRO

LAWOA 15mm f4 WIDE MACRO

SIGMA 150-600mm 

OLYMPUS 50mm f1.4

AND MORE...


 

Full control of adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premire pro.

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Behind the scenes:

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Lior Kestenberg
Wildlife Photographer & Filmmaker

© 2019 Created and designed by Lior Kestenberg

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