About US-American photo artist, Yair OELBAUM

Yair OELBAUM received a bachelor of arts from New York University and his master’s degree in clinical social work in in 2016. He always continued to write and take photographs of objects in spaces, which are of inexplicable beauty, yet from a world that has no need and esteem for human struggle.

Photo books by as well as with works by Yair OELBAUM

  • 'There We Will be Buried' (2011, together with Kai Althoff); 'Asleep in Dirt' (2024);

The photo volume 'Asleep in Dirt' by Yair OELBAUM contains photographs taken with a Macro 5 Polaroid camera. By experimenting with the camera, which was originally intended for dental and crime scene photography, he created abstract, emotional images.
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